Environmental setting, (micro)morphologies and stable C-O isotope composition of cold climate carbonate precipitates-a review and evaluation of their potential as paleoclimatic proxies

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1670-1689

  Lacelle, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE MINERALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; PRECIPITATES;

CARBONATE DEPOSITS; CARBONATE POWDERS; COLD-CLIMATE CARBONATE PRECIPITATES; PALEOCLIMATIC PROXIES;

ISOTOPES;

BEDROCK; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CLAST; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRUST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METHANOGENESIS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PERMAFROST; POLAR REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REACTION RATE; SPELEOTHEM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34250200761     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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