Speleothem calcite farmed in situ: Modern calibration of δ18O and δ13C paleoclimate proxies in a continuously-monitored natural cave system

DM Tremaine, PN Froelich, Y Wang - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationships between speleothem stable isotopes (δ13C δ18O) and in
situ cave forcing mechanisms is important to interpreting ancient stalagmite paleoclimate …

Mid-Holocene drying of the US Great Basin recorded in Nevada speleothems

E Steponaitis, A Andrews, D McGee, J Quade… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Lake level records point to dramatic changes in Great Basin water balance over the last 25
ka, but the timing and pace of Holocene drying in the region remains poorly documented …

The significance of chemical, isotopic, and detrital components in three coeval stalagmites from the superhumid southernmost Andes (53 S) as high-resolution palaeo …

D Schimpf, R Kilian, A Kronz, K Simon, C Spötl… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Stalagmites are important palaeo-climatic archives since their chemical and isotopic
signatures have the potential to record high-resolution changes in temperature and …

[PDF][PDF] Limitations of Hendy test criteria in judging the paleoclimatic suitability of speleothems and the need for replication

JA Dorale, Z Liu - Journal of cave and karst studies, 2009 - legacy.caves.org
Carbon and oxygen isotopes in calcite speleothems are powerful proxies for understanding
past climate change. For calcite deposited under isotopic equilibrium conditions, variations …

The sources and sinks of CO2 in caves under mixed woodland and grassland vegetation

DO Breecker, AE Payne, J Quade, JL Banner… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
We measured concentrations and stable carbon isotope compositions of carbon dioxide in
the atmospheres of three caves in central Texas and one cave in southern Arizona in order …

Oxygen and carbon isotopic systematics of aragonite speleothems and water in Furong Cave, Chongqing, China

TY Li, CC Shen, HC Li, JY Li, HW Chiang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
To understand oxygen and carbon stable isotopic characteristics of aragonite stalagmites
and evaluate their applicability to paleoclimate, the isotopic compositions of active and fossil …

Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial

L Comas-Bru, SP Harrison, M Werner… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
Although quantitative isotopic data from speleothems has been used to evaluate isotope-
enabled model simulations, currently no consensus exists regarding the most appropriate …

Contemporaneously growing speleothems and their value to decipher in-cave processes–A modelling approach

V Skiba, J Fohlmeister - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades speleothems have become valuable climate archives and are of crucial
importance for the investigation of past climate conditions. Albeit much progress has been …

Stable isotope composition alteration produced by the aragonite-to-calcite transformation in speleothems and implications for paleoclimate reconstructions

H Zhang, Y Cai, L Tan, S Qin, Z An - Sedimentary Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Aragonite, a mineralogical constituent of speleothems in cave environments, is unstable and
susceptible to inversion to calcite, a diagenetic process that involves changes in the …

Holocene climate variability in Texas, USA: An integration of existing paleoclimate data and modeling with a new, high-resolution speleothem record

CI Wong, JL Banner, ML Musgrove - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Delineating the climate processes governing precipitation variability in drought-prone Texas
is critical for predicting and mitigating climate change effects, and requires the reconstruction …