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 …

PRYSM: An open‐source framework for PRoxY System Modeling, with applications to oxygen‐isotope systems

S Dee, J Emile‐Geay, MN Evans… - Journal of Advances …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Paleoclimate observations constitute the only constraint on climate behavior prior to the
instrumental era. However, such observations only provide indirect (proxy) constraints on …

Megapixel multi-elemental imaging by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, a technology with considerable potential for paleoclimate studies

JO Cáceres, F Pelascini, V Motto-Ros, S Moncayo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Paleoclimate studies play a crucial role in understanding past and future climates and their
environmental impacts. Current methodologies for performing highly sensitive elemental …

Isotopic and magnetic proxies are good indicators of millennial-scale variability of the East Asian monsoon

L Fuchs, J Guo, E Schefuß, Y Sun, F Guo… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Past East Asian Monsoon variability has been reconstructed using oxygen isotopes
of cave speleothems as well as proxy indicators from Chinese loess sequences. However …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring soluble and colloidally transported trace elements in stalagmites: The strontium-yttrium connection

JT Sliwinski, O Kost, L Endres, M Iglesias… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
While seasonality in speleothem trace element signatures is well-documented, the
parameters that control the emergence of laminations vary between elements and tend to be …

Determination of aragonite trace element distribution coefficients from speleothem calcite–aragonite transitions

JA Wassenburg, D Scholz, KP Jochum, H Cheng… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The processes that govern the incorporation of (trace) elements into speleothems can often
be linked to environmental changes. Although element incorporation into speleothem calcite …

A mechanistic understanding of oxygen isotopic changes in the Western United States at the Last Glacial Maximum

C Tabor, M Lofverstrom, J Oster, B Wortham… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract At the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), records suggest drier conditions in the
northwest United States and wetter conditions in the southwest United States relative to …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing cave past to manage and conserve cave present and future

AC Hughes, E Kirksey, B Palmer, A Tivasauradej… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Whilst restoration and recovery of ecosystems has become a major priority, developing a
baseline of what biodiversity was like prior to disturbance, and what might have driven …