Paleoclimate variability during the Blake geomagnetic excursion (MIS 5d) deduced from a speleothem record

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 166-180

  Rossi, Carlos ^a   Mertz Kraus, Regina ^b   Osete, María Luisa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic excursions; Paleoclimate; Speleothems; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CAVES; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); FLUORESCENCE; GEOMAGNETISM; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; MARINE POLLUTION; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC EXCURSIONS; MAGNETITE CONCENTRATION; PALEOCLIMATES; RELATIVE PALEOINTENSITY; SPELEOTHEMS; WARM AND HUMID CLIMATES; WATER ROCK INTERACTIONS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; EPISODIC EVENT; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPELEOTHEM; TIMESCALE; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

SPAIN;

EID: 84936949344     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.007     Document Type: Article

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