Advancements in the use of speleothems as climate archives

CI Wong, DO Breecker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Speleothems have become a cornerstone of the approach to better understanding Earth's
climatic teleconnections due to their precise absolute chronologies, their continuous or …

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 …

Main controls on the stable carbon isotope composition of speleothems

J Fohlmeister, NRG Voarintsoa, FA Lechleitner… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The climatic controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition (δ 13 C) of speleothem
carbonate are less often discussed in the scientific literature in contrast to the frequently …

Carbon dioxide, ground air and carbon cycling in Gibraltar karst

DP Mattey, TC Atkinson, JA Barker, R Fisher… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
We put forward a general conceptual model of CO 2 behaviour in the vadose zone of karst
aquifers, based on physical principles of air flow through porous media and caves …

A global model for cave ventilation and seasonal bias in speleothem paleoclimate records

EW James, JL Banner, B Hardt - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cave calcite deposits (speleothems) provide long and continuous records of
paleoenvironmental conditions in terrestrial settings. Typical environmental proxy …

Conservation of prehistoric caves and stability of their inner climate: Lessons from Chauvet and other French caves

F Bourges, P Genthon, D Genty, M Lorblanchet… - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the last 150 years, some prehistoric painted caves suffered irreversible degradations due
to misperception of conservation issues and subsequent mismanagement. These sites …

Climatic and cave settings influence on drip water fluorescent organic matter with implications for fluorescent laminations in stalagmites

LS Endres, C Jacquin, S González-Lemos… - Quaternary …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Speleothem fluorescence can provide insights into past vegetation dynamics and stalagmite
chronology. However, its origin and especially the formation of fluorescent laminations in …

Inter-relationship and environmental significance of stalagmite δ13C and δ18O records from Zhenzhu Cave, north China, over the last 130 ka

Y Li, Z Rao, Q Xu, S Zhang, X Liu, Z Wang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
There is a vigorous and ongoing debate about the interpretation of the stalagmite δ 18 O
record from east China as an indicator of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) intensity …

Assessing response of local moisture conditions in central Brazil to variability in regional monsoon intensity using speleothem 87Sr/86Sr values

BE Wortham, CI Wong, LCR Silva, D McGee… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Delineating the controls on hydroclimate throughout Brazil is essential to assessing potential
impact of global climate change on water resources and biogeography. An increasing …

CO2 dynamics and heterogeneity in a cave atmosphere: role of ventilation patterns and airflow pathways

L Kukuljan, F Gabrovšek, MD Covington… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Understanding the dynamics and distribution of CO2 in the subsurface atmosphere of
carbonate karst massifs provides important insights into dissolution and precipitation …