Depositional continuity of seasonally laminated tufas: Implications for δ18O based palaeotemperatures

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 160-167

  Brasier, A T ^a   Andrews, J E ^a   Marca Bell, A D ^a   Dennis, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geochemistry; Greece; laminated tufa; last interglacial; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; LAMINATION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PETROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STREAM; TUFA; WATER TEMPERATURE;

GREECE;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 77952108407     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.022     Document Type: Article

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