The significance of chemical, isotopic, and detrital components in three coeval stalagmites from the superhumid southernmost Andes (53°S) as high-resolution palaeo-climate proxies

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 443-459

  Schimpf, Daniel ^a   Kilian, Rolf ^a   Kronz, Andreas ^b   Simon, Klaus ^b   Spötl, Christoph ^c   Wörner, Gerhard ^b   Deininger, Michael ^d   Mangini, Augusto ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andes; Element composition; Holocene; Little Ice Age; Medieval Warm Period; Palaeo climate; Stable isotopes; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

ANDES; ELEMENT COMPOSITIONS; HOLOCENES; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALAEO-CLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPES; STALAGMITE;

CARBONATION; CATCHMENTS; CAVES; DEGASSING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; RAIN; SECURITY OF DATA; SEEPAGE; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES; WEATHERING;

STRONTIUM;

CALIBRATION; CARBONATE; DEGASSING; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DILUTION; EVAPORATION; GRANODIORITE; HOST ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LEACHING; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NEOGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PEAT; PH; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; RESIDENCE TIME; SCHIST; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE; TRACE ELEMENT; WEATHER STATION;

ANDES; CHILE;

EID: 78951478519     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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