 | Holzkämper, Steffen, Holmgren, Karin, Lee-Thorp, Julia, Talma, Siep, Mangini, Augusto, Partridge, Tim (2009) Late Pleistocene stalagmite growth in Wolkberg Cave, South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 282 (1) 212-221 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.016 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Late Pleistocene stalagmite growth in Wolkberg Cave, South Africa Steffen Holzkämper a,⁎, Karin Holmgren...Resources and the Environment, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa d Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften,...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...9 April 2009 Editor: P. DeMenocal Keywords: South Africa Late Pleistocene climate variability stalagmites...of climate and environmental change in southern Africa during the last glacial period, in spite of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Quaternary Research Dating Unit, CSIR, Pretoria 0001, South Africa (Received January 1, 1993;revision accepted...assisting in the fractionation process. The Wolkberg cave speleothems preserve a record of the uranium... An isotopic study of speleothems from the Wolkberg Cave, within the aquifer, was carried out to corroborate...outcrop over large areas of the interior of South Africa. The crystalline dolomitic limestones, possibly...Planetary Science Letters 123 (1994) 81-93 Wolkberg cave were studied. The uranium isotopic signature |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lansfordite up to 18 mm in size associated with aragonite, gypsum, brandholzite and hörnesite. Its refined...(Fenoglio 1935), Suonion mine No. 19 in Lavrion District, Greece (Giester et al. 2000), Sommergraben near...Eibengrotte cave near Wiessenthal, Germany (Fischbeck, Müller 1971) or Wolkberg cave in Capricorn District, South...South Africa (Martini, Kavalieris 1978). Genth and Penfield (1890) and later also Fonoglio (1935) proposed...with other post-mining supergene minerals like aragonite, gypsum, brandholzite and hörnesite (Fig. 3). |  | Fensterer, Claudia, Scholz, Denis, Hoffmann, Dirk L., Spötl, Christoph, Schröder-Ritzrau, Andrea, Horn, Christian, Pajón, Jesus M., Mangini, Augusto (2013) Millennial-scale climate variability during the last 12.5ka recorded in a Caribbean speleothem. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 361. 143-151 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.019 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) record off West Africa as well as a similarity with the Bond events. Periods...were also observed in sediment records off West Africa (deMenocal et al., 2000). They are thought to be...Caribbean area has also played an important role in local human history. For instance, episodes of severe...University in order to confirm the transition from aragonite to calcite at 240 mm distance from top. The internal...Cuba Pequeño (CP) was collected in the Dos Anas cave system (14 km length), which is located in the Sierra |  | Wassenburg, J.A., Immenhauser, A., Richter, D.K., Niedermayr, A., Riechelmann, S., Fietzke, J., Scholz, D., Jochum, K.P., Fohlmeister, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Sabaoui, A., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Schneider, L., Esper, J. (2013) Moroccan speleothem and tree ring records suggest a variable positive state of the North Atlantic Oscillation during the Medieval Warm Period. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 375. 291-302 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.048 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sr/Ca ratios. Results show evidence for prior aragonite precipitation, which can explain negative correlations...anomaly speleothem prior calcite precipitation aragonite trace elements 1. Introduction The North Atlantic...covers the time period 619–1962 AD and is from a cave located in an area sensitive to droughts, which...however, an aragonitic stalagmite has been used. Aragonite speleothems are common in dolomite host rock caves... 1994; Wassenburg et al., 2012). In general, aragonite is diagenetically less stable under atmospheric |
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