Isotope disequilibrium effects: The influence of evaporation and ventilation effects on the carbon and oxygen isotope composition of speleothems - A model approach

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 96, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-79

  Deininger, Michael ^a   Fohlmeister, Jens ^a   Scholz, Denis ^b   Mangini, Augusto ^a  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISEQUILIBRIUM; EVAPORATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TEMPERATURE; VENTILATION;

EID: 84867354638     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.013     Document Type: Article

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