Detecting and quantifying palaeoseasonality in stalagmites using geochemical and modelling approaches

JUL Baldini, FA Lechleitner, SFM Breitenbach… - Quaternary science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Stalagmites are an extraordinarily powerful resource for the reconstruction of climatological
palaeoseasonality. Here, we provide a review of different types of seasonality preserved by …

Organic proxies in speleothems–New developments, advantages and limitations

AJ Blyth, A Hartland, A Baker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Research into organic matter in speleothems has progressed recently to encompass new
analytical approaches and applications, which offer increased potential in areas such as …

Connecting molecular biomarkers, mineralogical composition, and microbial diversity from Mars analog lava tubes

V Palma, JL González-Pimentel… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Lanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain) is one of the best terrestrial analogs to Martian
volcanology. Particularly, Lanzarote lava tubes may offer access to recognizably preserved …

Holocene temperature and hydrological changes reconstructed by bacterial 3-hydroxy fatty acids in a stalagmite from central China

C Wang, JA Bendle, H Zhang, Y Yang, D Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
To achieve a sufficient understanding of the spatial dynamics of terrestrial climate variability,
new proxies and networks of data that cover thousands of years and run up to the present …

Hydrological control of the dead carbon fraction in a Holocene tropical speleothem

ML Griffiths, J Fohlmeister, RN Drysdale, Q Hua… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, a number of speleothem studies have used radiocarbon (14C) to
address a range of palaeoclimate problems. These have included the use of the bomb pulse …

Calibrating the glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether temperature signal in speleothems

AJ Blyth, S Schouten - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Palaeotemperature proxies based on glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) lipids
have been established for marine and lacustrine environments, but there has been relatively …

Contrasting distributions of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in speleothems and associated soils

AJ Blyth, CN Jex, A Baker, SJ Khan, S Schouten - Organic Geochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) preserved in speleothems can form useful
records of terrestrial palaeotemperature. However, understanding of the sources of these …

Reduced early Holocene moisture availability inferred from δD values of sedimentary n-alkanes in Zigetang Co, Central Tibetan Plateau

C **, F Günther, S Li, G Jia, P Peng… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
An 885-cm-long laminated sediment core was retrieved from Zigetang Co, a non-glacial
meltwater-fed lake in the central Tibetan Plateau, and analyzed for n-alkanes as well as their …

Organic characterisation of cave drip water by LC-OCD and fluorescence analysis

H Rutlidge, MS Andersen, A Baker, KJ Chinu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Cathedral Cave, Wellington, Australia, is a natural laboratory for studying water
movement and geochemical processes in the unsaturated zone by using artificial irrigation …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the application of organic geochemical techniques to tropical Anjohibe (Madagascar) stalagmites

RR Dawson, IS Castañeda, SJ Burns, JM Salacup… - Organic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Speleothem stable carbon isotopes (δ 13 C carb) are used to reconstruct past environments,
but are a complex signal of karst, soil and plant processes. To help untangle these signals …