Research Catalog

Title

Studies of cave sediments : physical and chemical records of paleoclimate / edited by Ira D. Sasowsky and John Mylroie.

Publication

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mylroie, John.
• Sasowsky, Ira D.

Description

x, 329 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

This comprehensive volume on cave sediments provides case studies from around the world, gives guidance on appropriate applications of techniques, and their limitations, synthesizes methods that can be used to decipher complex deposits and includes chemical deposits as well as clastic sediments.

Alternative Title

Cave sediments : physical and chemical records of paleoclimate

Subjects

• Sediments (Geology)
• Sediments (Geology) > Analysis
• Hydrogeology
• Meteorology/Climatology
• Geosciences
• Sedimentology
• Meteorology
• Hydraulic engineering
• Geochemistry
• Geological time
• Paleoclimatology
• Speleothems
• Caves

Note

• "Reprinted with corrections"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Lithofacies and transport of clastic sediments in karstic aquifers / Rachel F. Bosch and William B. White -- Sediment and sediment-associated contaminant transport through karst / Barbara J. Mahler ... [et al.] -- Palaeomagnetic analysis of sediments on the Buchan Caves, southeastern Australia, provides a pre-late Pleistocene date for landscape and climate evolution / R.J. Musgrave and J.A. Webb -- Paleomagnetic analysis of a long-term sediment trap, Kooken Cave, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA / Ira D. Sasowsky ... [et al.] -- Provenance of suspended sediment discharged from a karst aquifer determined by clay mineralogy / F. Leo Lynch, Barbara J. Mahler and Nico N. Hauwert -- Reading Virginia's paleoclimate from the geochemistry and sedimentology of clastic cave sediments / Elizabeth P. Knapp ... [et al.] -- Glacially-influenced sediment cycles in the Lime Creek karst, Eagle County, Colorado / Paul A. Burger -- Cave sediments and denuded caverns in the Laški Ravnik, classical karst of Slovenia / France Šušteršič -- Paleoclimate records from speleothems in limestone caves / William B. White -- Uranium-series dating of speleothems : current techniques, limits, and applications / Jeffrey A. Dorale ... [et al.] -- Paleoclimate information from speleothems : the present as a guide to the past / Russell S. Harmon ... [et al.] -- Influence of depositional environment on Devil's Hole calcite morphology and petrology / Peter T. Kolesar and Alan C. Riggs -- Speleothems from the high-alpine Spannagel Cave, Zillertal Alps (Austria) / Christoph Spötl ... [et al.] -- Isotope stage 11, the "super-interglacial", from a North Norwegian speleothem / Stein-Erik Lauritzen and Joyce Lundberg --
• Establishing a speleothem chronology for southwestern Oregon - climatic controls and growth modelling / Steven C. Turgeon and Joyce Lundberg -- Silicates in carbonate speleothems, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, U.S.A. / Victor J. Polyak and Necip Güven -- Reliquiae diluvianae alter : last interglacial flood deposits in the caves of the West Indies / Donald A. McFarlane and Joyce Lundberg.

ISBN

• 9781402053269
• 1402053266

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library