Age and Depositional Temperature of Quaternary Travertine Spring Mounds from Slovakia

Travertine spring mounds are common in Slovakia; however, their age and depositional temperature still poorly known. Our study is the first multimethodological investigation involving stable carbon, oxygen, clumped isotope (Δ47) analyses U-Th determination of travertine from different locations Slovakia (Santovka, Dudince, Čerin, Bešeňová, Liptovský Ján, Liptovské Sliače, Vyšné Ružbachy, Gánovce, Sivá Brada) to provide information about age, origin, precipitation conditions, temperature. The positive δ13C values imply that parent water was charged with heavy CO2 deep origin. δ18O waters range between −11.4‰ −8.9‰, whereas δ2H vary −80.5‰ −58.3, indicating a meteoric origin for waters. Clumped compositions correspond deposition 4 °C 32 °C. data studied travertines 1.2 (Liptovské Sliače) 301 ka (Dudince). results can serve as basis further detailed geochronological geochemical studies reconstruct paleoclimate paleoenvironment during periods since mid-Pleistocene transition.