Determination of Holocene cave temperatures from Kr and Xe concentrations in stalagmite fluid inclusions

Chemical Geology

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 61-66

  Scheidegger, Yvonne ^a,b   Brennwald, Matthias S ^a   Fleitmann, Dominik ^c   Jeannin, Pierre Yves ^d   Wieler, Rainer ^b   Kipfer, Rolf ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d Institut Suisse de Speleologie et de Karstologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calcite; Climate; Fluid inclusion; Noble gas temperature; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC AIR; CLIMATE; CLIMATIC REGIONS; FLUID INCLUSION; HOLOCENES; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; NOBLE GAS; NOBLE GAS TEMPERATURES; PRIMARY WATER; STALAGMITE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CAVES; GASES; KRYPTON; MINERALOGY; XENON;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CALCITE; CAVE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLUID INCLUSION; HOLOCENE; KRYPTON; MICROCLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; STALAGMITE; XENON;

EID: 80051669137     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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