Three thousand years of extreme rainfall events recorded in stalagmites from Spring Valley Caverns, Minnesota

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 300, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 46-54

  Dasgupta, Sushmita ^a,b   Saar, Martin O ^b   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b   Shen, Chuan Chou ^c   Cheng, Hai ^b,d   Alexander, E Calvin ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cave flooding; Confocal microscopy; Extreme rainfall events; Fluorescent bands; Paleoclimate; Stalagmites

Indexed keywords

EXTREME FLOOD EVENTS; EXTREME RAINFALL; FLOOD EVENT; FLUORESCENT BANDS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MINNESOTA; PALEOCLIMATES; PRECIPITATION DATA; RAIN EVENTS; STALAGMITES; STRONG CORRELATION; UPPER MISSISSIPPI;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FLUORESCENCE; GLOBAL WARMING; MOISTURE; RAIN;

CAVES;

CAVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MICROSCOPY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; STALAGMITE;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149499540     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.032     Document Type: Article

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