Climate data guide content with tag speleothems (cave deposits)
Speleothems and the SISAL database: An overview of the use of speleothems as archives of climate proxies
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Speleothems provide globally distributed, seasonal to multi-annual resolution climate records encoded in multiple proxies including oxygen and carbon stable isotopes, and trace elements. Speleothems, such as stalagmites and flowstones, are secondary cave carbonate deposits. They grow by incremental deposition of layers of calcium carbonate from dripping water, and encode…
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- Annual, Decadal, Irregular
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- Global
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Experts contributing reviews
- Kaushal, Nikita, Lechleitner, Franziska