Identifying short-term and seasonal trends in cave drip water trace element concentrations based on a daily-scale automatically collected drip water dataset

Chemical Geology

Volumn 330-331, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  Baldini, James U L ^a   McDermott, Frank ^b   Baldini, Lisa M ^a   Ottley, Chris J ^a   Linge, Kathryn L ^c   Clipson, Nicholas ^b   Jarvis, Kym E ^d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colloids; Drip water; Hydrology; Palaeoclimate; Stalagmite; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ALKALI EARTH METAL; CONDENSATION WATER; DATA SETS; DRY DEPOSITION; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; IRELAND; KARST WATER; ORGANIC COLLOIDS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PALAEOCLIMATE; PB CONCENTRATION; RELATIVE TIMING; SEASONAL SHIFTS; SEASONAL TRENDS; STALAGMITE; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; WATER DEFICITS; WATER SAMPLES; WATER SAMPLING;

BARIUM; CESIUM; COLLOIDS; CONDENSATION; HYDROLOGY; LEAD; RUBIDIUM; SODIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CAVES;

CAVE; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROCHEMISTRY; PALEOCLIMATE; STALAGMITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

IRELAND;

EID: 84865847501     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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