Scientific drilling of speleothems - a technical note

International Journal of Speleology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-34

  Spötl, Christoph ^a   Mattey, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cave conservation; Coring; Flowstone; Sampling; Speleothem; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DRILLING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE;

EID: 84858773479     PISSN: 03926672     EISSN: 1827806X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5038/1827-806X.41.1.4     Document Type: Article

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