https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Hypogean microclimatology and hydrogology of the 800-900 m asl level in the Monte Corchia cave (Tuscany, Italy): preliminary considerations and implications for paleoclimatological studies https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:17747 DIC and drip rate depend on the local structural setting and water path length. The data presented show that Galleria delle Stalattiti (the focus of the paleoclimate research) has the most stable conditions in terms of temperature, and the dripwaters show constant pH, electrical conductivity, alkalinity, calcium and magnesium content and δ¹⁸O. Drip rate is not affected by rain events and displays long-term trends that require a longer period of monitoring for elucidating their nature. The preliminary data presented here corroborate the hypotheses suggesting Galleria delle Stalattiti as a good example of a “deep” hypogean system of Fairchild et al. (2007).]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:25:52 AEST ]]> Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46693 Tue 29 Nov 2022 09:42:29 AEDT ]]> Stable isotope composition of Helix ligata (Müller, 1774) from Late Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological record from Grotta della Serratura (Southern Italy): palaeoclimatic implications https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:9608 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:39:39 AEDT ]]> Stalagmite evidence for the onset of the Last Interglacial in southern Europe at 129 ± 1 ka https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:1524 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:30:48 AEDT ]]> U-Pb geochronology of speleothems by MC-ICPMS https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:1234 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:28:33 AEDT ]]> Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:1222 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:28:30 AEDT ]]> Palaeoclimatic implications of the growth history and stable isotope (δ ¹⁸O and δ ¹³C) geochemistry of a Middle to Late Pleistocene stalagmite from Central-Western Italy https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:1701 0 °C at a time when MIS 6 ice volumes were close to their maximum. High stable carbon isotope (δ¹³C) values (−2.8‰ to +3.1‰) throughout the stalagmite's growth reflect a persistently low input of biogenic CO², indicating that the steep, barren and alpine-like recharge area of today has been in existence for at least the last ∼380 kyr. During MIS 9, the lowest δ¹³C values occur well after maximum interglacial conditions, suggesting a lag in the development of post-glacial soils in this high-altitude karst. The stable oxygen isotope (δ¹⁸O) trends match the main structural features of the major climate proxy records (SPECMAP, Vostok and Devils Hole), suggesting that the δ¹⁸O of CC1 has responded to global-scale climate changes, whilst remarkable similarity exists between CC1 δ¹⁸O and regional sea-surface temperature reconstructions from North Atlantic core ODP980 and southwest Pacific marine core MD97-2120 through the most detailed part of the CC1 record, MIS 9–8. The results suggest that CC1 and other stalagmites from the cave have the potential to capture a long record of regional temperature trends, particularly in regards to the relative severity of Pleistocene glacial stages.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:27:20 AEDT ]]> Stalagmite carbon isotopes and dead carbon proportion (DCP) in a near-closed-system situation: an interplay between sulphuric and carbonic acid dissolution https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30183 2 contribution to the total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC). Pronounced millennial-scale shifts in DCP and relatively small coeval but antipathetic changes in δ¹³C are modulated by the effects of hydrological variability on open and closed-system dissolution, SAD and prior calcite precipitation. Hence, the DCP in Corchia Cave speleothems represents an additional proxy for rainfall amount.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:41:34 AEDT ]]> Stalagmite evidence for the precise timing of North Atlantic cold events during the early last glacial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:3183 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:18:09 AEDT ]]> "Cryptic" diagenesis and its implications for speleothem geochronologies https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25047 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:10:46 AEDT ]]>