Speleothems reveal 500,000-year history of Siberian permafrost

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6129, 2013, Pages 183-186

  Vaks, A ^a   Gutareva, O S ^b   Breitenbach, S F M ^c   Avirmed, E ^d   Mason, A J ^a   Thomas, A L ^a   Osinzev, A V ^e   Kononov, A M ^b   Henderson, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^e Arabica Speleological Club   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PERMAFROST; SPELEOTHEM; WARMING;

ARTICLE; CAVE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY; HUMIDITY; PERMAFROST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; THAWING;

SIBERIA;

EID: 84876313458     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1228729     Document Type: Article

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