A High-Resolution Record of Holocene Climate Change in Speleothem Calcite from Cold Water Cave, Northeast Iowa

Details A High-Resolution Record of Holocene Climate Change in Speleothem Calcite from Cold Water Cave, Northeast Iowa A High-Resolution Record of Holocene Climate Change in Speleothem Calcite from Cold Water Cave, Northeast Iowa

Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992sci...258.1626d&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 258, Issue 5088, pp. 1626-1630

Physics

37

Scientific paper

High-precision uranium-thorium mass spectrometric chronology and 18O-13C isotopic analysis of speleothem calcite from Cold Water Cave in northeast lowa have been used to chart mid-Holocene climate change. Significant shifts in δ18O and δ13C isotopic values coincide with well-documented Holocene vegetation changes. Temperature estimates based on 18O/16O ratios suggest that the climate warmed rapidly by about 3^circC at 5900 years before present and then cooled by 4^circC at 3600 years before present. Initiation of a gradual increase in δ13C at 5900 years before present suggests that turnover of the forest soil biomass was slow and that equilibrium with prairie vegetation was not attained by 3600 years before present.

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