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 …

Eastern Mediterranean climate change deduced from the Soreq Cave fluid inclusion stable isotopes and carbonate clumped isotopes record of the last 160 ka

A Matthews, HP Affek, A Ayalon, HB Vonhof… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
A fundamental issue in the interpretation of speleothem calcite δ 18 O cc records is the
correct partitioning of the effects of temperature and water δ 18 O variations. This study …

Main controls on the stable carbon isotope composition of speleothems

J Fohlmeister, NRG Voarintsoa, FA Lechleitner… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The climatic controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition (δ 13 C) of speleothem
carbonate are less often discussed in the scientific literature in contrast to the frequently …

Penultimate deglaciation Asian monsoon response to North Atlantic circulation collapse

JA Wassenburg, HB Vonhof, H Cheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
During glacial terminations, massive iceberg discharges and meltwater pulses in the North
Atlantic triggered a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) …

The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

K Atsawawaranunt, L Comas-Bru… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most
particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and …

[HTML][HTML] Bioproductivity and vegetation changes documented in Eifel maar lake sediments (western Germany) compared with speleothem growth indicating three …

DFC Riechelmann, J Albert, S Britzius… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding supra-regional climate variability such as the changes in the North Atlantic
realm is important to identify the drivers of the climate system. In this study maar lake …

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 …

Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: a multi-proxy and multi-record approach

M Cisneros, I Cacho, J Frigola, M Canals… - Climate of the …, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
This study presents the reconstructed evolution of sea surface conditions in the central-
western Mediterranean Sea during the late Holocene (2700 years) from a set of multi-proxy …

The potential of speleothems from Western Europe as recorders of regional climate: a critical assessment of the SISAL database

FA Lechleitner, S Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi, A Columbu… - Quaternary, 2018 - mdpi.com
Western Europe is the region with the highest density of published speleothem δ18O
(δ18Ospel) records worldwide. Here, we review these records in light of the recent …

Subfossil peatland trees as proxies for Holocene palaeohydrology and palaeoclimate

J Edvardsson, M Stoffel, C Corona, L Bragazza… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to the scarcity of reliable and highly resolved moisture proxies covering much of the
Holocene, there has been increased interest in the study of living and subfossil peatland …