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 …

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 …

The relationship between pH and bacterial communities in a single karst ecosystem and its implication for soil acidification

Y Yun, H Wang, B Man, X **ang, J Zhou, X Qiu… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Enhanced monsoon duration and soil acidification from acid rain are expected to impact the
distribution of microbial communities in surface and subsurface environments, although …

Links between the East Asian monsoon and North Atlantic climate during the 8,200 year event

YH Liu, GM Henderson, CY Hu, AJ Mason… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
An abrupt cooling event in the North Atlantic region 8,200 years ago affected climate
throughout the Northern Hemisphere,,. The event is well constrained in Greenland ice cores …

Seasonal dripwater Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca variations driven by cave ventilation: Implications for and modeling of speleothem paleoclimate records

CI Wong, JL Banner, ML Musgrove - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
A 4-year study in a central Texas cave quantifies multiple mechanisms that control dripwater
composition and how these mechanisms vary at different drip sites. We monitored cave-air …

Cave ventilation and rainfall signals in dripwater in a monsoonal setting–a monitoring study from NE India

SFM Breitenbach, FA Lechleitner, H Meyer… - Chemical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Detailed monitoring of subterranean microclimatic and hydrological conditions can delineate
factors influencing speleothem-based climate proxy data and helps in their interpretation …

Disequilibrium carbon and oxygen isotope fractionation in recent cave calcite: Comparison of cave precipitates and model data

DFC Riechelmann, M Deininger, D Scholz… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Speleothem proxy data provide important information in continental palaeo-climate research
due to their precise chronology and wide geographic distribution. Despite a continuously …

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 …

Lateglacial to holocene trace element record (Ba, Mg, Sr) from corchia cave (Apuan Alps, central Italy): paleoenvironmental implications

E REGATTIERI, G ZANCHETTA… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT In this study, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios in a Lateglacial to Holocene
stalagmite (CC26) from Corchia Cave (central Italy) are compared with stable isotope data to …

I‐STAL, a model for interpretation of Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca variations in speleothems and its forward and inverse application on seasonal to millennial scales

HM Stoll, W Müller, M Prieto - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Trace element ratios Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, and Ba/Ca are readily measured in speleothems and
may be closely related to hydrological balance, enhancing paleoclimate information inferred …