Sub-Milankovitch climatic cycles in Holocene stalagmites from Sauerland, Germany

• Main Authors: Stefan Niggemann A B, Augusto Mangini C, Manfred Mudelsee D, Detlev K. Richter B, Georg Wurth B
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Holocene; stalagmite; N18O record; paleohumidity; climatic cycle; Germany; Atta; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.544.1508; http://www.manfredmudelsee.com/publ/pdf/Sub-Milankovitch_climatic_cycles_in_Holocene_stalagmites_from_Sauerland_Germany.pdf

Calcitic stalagmites from caves in the Sauerland, Germany, prove the existence of sub-Milankovitch cycles in precipitation during the last 6000 yr. The N18O record dated with Th/U is interpreted as an indicator of paleohumidity. Spectral analysis of N18O from 6000 a BP up to the recent top of a stal...