Coarsely crystalline cryogenic cave carbonate-a new archive to estimate the Last Glacial minimum permafrost depth in Central Europe

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1821-1837

  Zak K ^a   Richter, D K ^b   Filippi, M ^a   Zivor R ^a   Deininger, M ^c   Mangini, A ^c   Scholz, D ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CAVE; CRYSTAL PROPERTY; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; KARSTIFICATION; LAST GLACIAL; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN; PERMAFROST; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SPELEOTHEM; THAWING;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84869434707     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1821-2012     Document Type: Article

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