Continental pleistocene climatic variations from speleothem age and isotopic data.
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Speleothems from continental North American caves have been dated by means of the (230)Th/(234)U method. Oxygen isotopic variations in the dated samples and phases of speleothem deposition can be interpreted in terms of climatic change. A glacial chronology constructed from the age and isotopic data lends support to the astronomical theory of climatic change.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 184 4139 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1974