Paleoclimate Models for Western North American as Inferred from Speleothem Isotope Records

• Main Author: Serefiddin, Feride
• Other Authors: Schwarcz, Henry P., Ford, Derek C., Geology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Geology; Black Hills; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13978

Prediction of future climate change relies on the accuracy of models that can be calibrated using paleoclimate proxy data. The longest and most continuous records are based on marine sediment and ice cores, but cannot be dated using absolute radiometric techniques. Analyses of speleothems from weste...