Development and application of speleothem-based proxies for past climate change

<p>This thesis develops and applies new techniques for reconstructing past environments from the speleothem archive. Chapter 3 introduces Ca isotopes as a novel palaeo-aridity proxy. Recent dripwater, farmed calcite and bedrock data show that, in the modern environment, 36% of initial dripwate...

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Main Author: Owen, R
Other Authors: Day, C
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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