Diagenesis of speleothems and its effect on the accuracy of 230Th/U-ages

Chemical Geology

Volumn 387, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-86

  Scholz, Denis ^a   Tolzmann, Jan ^a,b   Hoffmann, Dirk L ^c,d   Jochum, Klaus P ^b   Spötl, Christoph ^e   Riechelmann, Dana F C ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calcite fabric; Diagenesis; Modelling; Speleothem; U series dating

Indexed keywords

DIAGENESIS; SPELEOTHEM; U-SERIES DATING;

MODELS;

CALCITE; DIAGENESIS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; THORIUM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

GERMANY;

EID: 84907964144     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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