Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a simple, straightforward, and versatile
form of atomic emission spectroscopy that focuses a rapidly-pulsed laser beam onto a …

The Sahara is the world's largest dust source with significant impacts on trans-Atlantic
terrestrial and large-scale marine ecosystems. Contested views about a gradual or abrupt …

Paleoclimate studies play a crucial role in understanding past and future climates and their
environmental impacts. Current methodologies for performing highly sensitive elemental …

Gerard C. Bond established a Holocene series of North Atlantic ice-rafted debris events
based on quartz and haematite-stained grains recovered from subpolar North Atlantic …

Despite the multiple impacts of mineral aerosols on global and regional climate and the
primary climatic control on atmospheric dust fluxes, dust-climate feedbacks remain poorly …

Carbonate stalagmites have become increasingly attractive to Quaternary paleoclimate
research, as they can be accurately dated by radiometric methods and concurrently yield …

Cave stalagmites are recognized as excellent archives for studying contemporary and
historical climate variations. They present a valuable opportunity for accurately identifying …

In the necessary task of obtaining high-resolution paleoclimate series from speleothems, the
characterization of their internal microstratigraphy is a useful tool for: a) improving …

Abstract A seven-year (2006–2013) monitoring was conducted in Bunker Cave, northwest
Germany. The monitoring programme incorporates cave air temperature, the amount of …

Laboratory experiments showed that the isotopic fractionation of δ 13 C and of δ 18 O during
calcite formation of planktic foraminifera are species-specific functions of ambient CO 3 2 …