TY - BOOK AU - Fairchild, Ian J. AU - Baker, Andy TI - Speleothem science: From process to past environments SN - 9781405196208 U1 - 551.447 PY - 2012/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Speleothems KW - Paleoclimatology N1 - 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 ER -