Whether during past climate stages or into a progressively warming world, changes in
precipitation constitute a key component of climatic change. Quantitative proxies for palaeo …

Speleothems are now regarded as valuable archives of climatic conditions on the
continents, offering a number of advantages relative to other continental climate proxy …

The timing of the dispersal of anatomically modern humans (AMH) out of Africa is a
fundamental question in human evolutionary studies. Existing data suggest a rapid coastal …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

uring the spring of 1960, an uncle showed me a 'petrifying spring'near Plaxtol in Kent
Dwhere twigs had been encased in a calcareous jacket. A twig was collected and having …

High-resolution oxygen isotope (δ18O) profiles of Holocene stalagmites from four caves in
Northern and Southern Oman and Yemen (Socotra) provide detailed information on …

The regional monsoons of the world have long been viewed as seasonal atmospheric
circulation reversal—analogous to a thermally-driven land-sea breeze on a continental …

Speleothems are primarily studied in order to generate archives of climatic change and
results have led to significant advances in identifying and dating major shifts in the climate …

The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries.
The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves …

Water‐limited environments occupy about half of the Earth's land surface and contain some
of the fastest growing population centers in the world. Scarcity or variable distributions of …