Global analysis reveals climatic controls on the oxygen isotope composition of cave drip water
- Submitting institution
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Teesside University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 10037266
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-019-11027-w
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 2984
- First page
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- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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13
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Stalagmites are valuable past climate recorders but accurate proxy record interpretation requires modern calibration of stalagmite geochemistry with cave drip water chemistry and surface climate. Unfortunately, many stalagmite-based palaeoclimate reconstructions are not supported by regular, long-term cave monitoring data due to financial and cave access constraints. This study marks the long-awaited compilation of all global cave drip water and rainwater monitoring data (163 drip sites, 39 caves, and five continents) providing the first ever key or ‘Rosetta stone’ for accurate climate-based interpretation of global stalagmite isotope records even in the absence of cave-specific monitoring data.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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