Relationship between modern rainfall variability, cave dripwater, and stalagmite geochemistry in Guam, USA

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Partin, Judson W ^a   Jenson, John W ^b   Banner, Jay L ^a   Quinn, Terrence M ^a   Taylor, Frederick W ^a   Sinclair, Daniel ^c   Hardt, Benjamin ^a   Lander, Mark A ^b   Bell, Tomoko ^b   Miklavic, Blaž ^b,d   Jocson, John M U ^b   Taboroši, Danko ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUAM   (Guam)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Paleoclimate; Speleothem; Stalagmite; Western Pacific Warm Pool

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CAVES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE RECORD; COMPLEX NATURE; CYCLICITY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL NETWORKS; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATES; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL LOCATION; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL; WET SEASON;

RAIN;

CAVE; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; RECHARGE; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE;

GUAM; MARIANA ISLANDS;

EID: 84858988585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003930     Document Type: Article

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