Climatic and environmental controls on speleothem oxygen-isotope values

MS Lachniet - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Variations in speleothem oxygen-isotope values (δ18O) result from a complicated interplay
of environmental controls and processes in the ocean, atmosphere, soil zone, epikarst, and …

The 8k event: cause and consequences of a major Holocene abrupt climate change

RB Alley, AM Ágústsdóttir - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
A prominent, abrupt climate event about 8200 years ago brought generally cold and dry
conditions to broad northern-hemisphere regions especially in wintertime, in response to a …

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 …

Large kinetic isotope effects in modern speleothems

PJ Mickler, LA Stern, JL Banner - Geological Society of …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The application of stable isotopes in speleothem records requires an understanding of the
extent to which speleothem calcite isotopic compositions reflect the compositions of the cave …

The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon:'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity

SE Metcalfe, JA Barron, SJ Davies - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent
areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate …

High-resolution Holocene South American monsoon history recorded by a speleothem from Botuverá Cave, Brazil

JP Bernal, FW Cruz, NM Stríkis, X Wang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
A Holocene stalagmite from Botuverá Cave, southeastern Brazil was analyzed by LA-ICPMS
for Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, Ba/Ca. The observed variability in the record was demonstrated to be …

SISALv2: a comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age–depth models

L Comas-Bru, K Rehfeld, C Roesch… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Characterizing the temporal uncertainty in palaeoclimate records is crucial for analysing
past climate change, correlating climate events between records, assessing climate …

[PDF][PDF] Cave sediments and paleoclimate

WB White - Journal of Cave and Karst studies, 2007 - legacy.caves.org
This paper is a review of cave sediments: their characteristics and their application as
paleoclimate archives. Cave sediments can be separated into two broad categories, clastic …

Model–data comparison for the 8.2 ka BP event: confirmation of a forcing mechanism by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide Lakes

AP Wiersma, H Renssen - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
To improve our understanding of the mechanism behind the 8.2 kaBP cooling event, we
compare proxy evidence with climate model simulations in which the thermohaline ocean …

Stalagmite evidence from Belize indicating significant droughts at the time of Preclassic Abandonment, the Maya Hiatus, and the Classic Maya collapse

JW Webster, GA Brook, LB Railsback, H Cheng… - Palaeogeography …, 2007 - Elsevier
Paleoenvironmental data from a stalagmite from western Belize provide a 3300-year record
of droughts that impacted the Maya civilization at least four times across a span of 1500 …