Seasonal climate signals (1990-2008) in a modern Soreq Cave stalagmite as revealed by high-resolution geochemical analysis

Chemical Geology

Volumn 363, Issue , 2014, Pages 322-333

  Orland, Ian J ^a   Burstyn, Yuval ^b,c   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Kozdon, Reinhard ^a   Ayalon, Avner ^b   Matthews, Alan ^c   Valley, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate record; Ion microprobe; Laser ablation ICP MS; Oxygen isotopes; Speleothem; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECORD; ION MICROPROBE; LASER-ABLATION-ICP-MS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SPELEOTHEM;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CAVES; COLLOIDS; FLUORESCENCE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ION MICROSCOPES; ISOTOPES; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; OXYGEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

MAGNESIUM;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ION MICROPROBE; LASER METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 84890031528     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.11.011     Document Type: Article

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