Fairchild, Ian J.

Speleothem science: From process to past environments/ Ian J. Fairchild and Andy Baker. - 1st ed. - United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - xiv, 432 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

I Scientific and geological context
1 Introduction to speleothems and systems
2 Carbonate and karst cave geology
3 Surface environments: climate, soil and vegetation

II Transfer processes in karst
4 The speleothem incubator
5 Inorganic water chemistry
6 Biogeochemistry of karstic environments

III Speleothem properties
7 The architecture of speleothems
8 Geochemistry of speleothems
9 Dating of speleothems

IV Palaeoenvironments
10 The instrumental era: calibration and validation of proxy-environment relationships
11 The Holocene epoch: testing the climate and environmental proxies
12 The Pleistocene and beyond

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Speleothems
Paleoclimatology

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