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0000-0002-0298-8441
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The University of Auckland
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2004
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604HL676RP
Abstract: The stable isotope records of four stalagmites dated by 19 TIMS uranium series ages are combined to produce master chronologies for δ 18 O and δ 13 C. The δ 18 O records display good overall coherence, but considerable variation in detail. Variability in the δ 13 C records is greater, but general trends can still be dis cerned. This implies that too fine an interpretation of the structure of in idual isotopic records can be unreliable. Speleothem δ 18 O values are demonstrated to show a positive relationship with temperature by comparing trends with other proxy records, but also to respond negatively to rainfall amount. Speleothem δ 13 C is con sidered to be most influenced by rainfall. The postglacial thermal optimum occurred around 10.8 ka BP, which is similar in timing to Antarctica but up to 2000 years earlier than most Northern Hemisphere sites. Increasingly negative δ 18 O values after 7.5 ka BP indicate that temperatures declined to a late mid-Holocene minimum centred around 3 ka BP, but more positive values followed to mark a warm peak about 750 years ago which coincided with the ‘Mediaeval Warm Period’ of Europe. Low δ 18 O values at 325 years BP suggest cooling coincident with the ‘Little Ice Age’. A marked feature of the δ 13 C record is an asymmetric periodicity averaging c. 2250 years and litude of c. 1.9‰. It is concluded that this is mainly driven by waterbalance variations with negative swings representing particularly wet intervals. The δ 18 O record shows a higher-frequency cyclicity with a period of c. 500 years and an litude of c. 0.25‰. This is most likely to be temperature-driven, but some swings may have been lified by precipitation.
Publisher: University of South Florida Libraries
Date: 07-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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