Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Winter Wonderland Cave contains perennial ice associated with two types of cryogenic cave carbonate (CCC) formed during the freezing of water. CCC<jats:sub>fine</jats:sub> is characterized by relatively high δ<jats:sup>13&l...
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ftmit:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/133805.2 2023-06-11T04:12:33+02:00 Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA Munroe, Jeffrey Kimble, Kristin Spötl, Christoph Serrato Marks, Gabriela Mcgee, David Herron, David Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 2021-09-17T14:21:26Z application/octet-stream https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133805.2 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC 10.1038/S41598-021-85658-9 Scientific Reports https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133805.2 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scientific Reports Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2021 ftmit 2023-05-29T08:35:14Z <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Winter Wonderland Cave contains perennial ice associated with two types of cryogenic cave carbonate (CCC) formed during the freezing of water. CCC<jats:sub>fine</jats:sub> is characterized by relatively high δ<jats:sup>13</jats:sup>C values, whereas CCC<jats:sub>coarse</jats:sub> exhibits notably low δ<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O values indicating precipitation under (semi)closed-system conditions in a pool of residual water beneath an ice lid. Previous work has concluded that CCC<jats:sub>coarse</jats:sub> forms during permafrost thaw, making the presence of this precipitate a valuable indicator of past cryospheric change. Available geochronologic evidence indicates that CCC formation in this cave is a Late Holocene or contemporary process, and field observations suggest that the cave thermal regime recently changed in a manner that permits the ingress of liquid water. This is the first documented occurence of CCC<jats:sub>coarse</jats:sub> in the Western Hemisphere and one of only a few locations where these minerals have been found in association with ice. Winter Wonderland Cave is a natural laboratory for studying CCC genesis.</jats:p> Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice permafrost DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Winter Wonderland Cave contains perennial ice associated with two types of cryogenic cave carbonate (CCC) formed during the freezing of water. CCC<jats:sub>fine</jats:sub> is characterized by relatively high δ<jats:sup>13</jats:sup>C values, whereas CCC<jats:sub>coarse</jats:sub> exhibits notably low δ<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O values indicating precipitation under (semi)closed-system conditions in a pool of residual water beneath an ice lid. Previous work has concluded that CCC<jats:sub>coarse</jats:sub> forms during permafrost thaw, making the presence of this precipitate a valuable indicator of past cryospheric change. Available geochronologic evidence indicates that CCC formation in this cave is a Late Holocene or contemporary process, and field observations suggest that the cave thermal regime recently changed in a manner that permits the ingress of liquid water. This is the first documented occurence of CCC<jats:sub>coarse</jats:sub> in the Western Hemisphere and one of only a few locations where these minerals have been found in association with ice. Winter Wonderland Cave is a natural laboratory for studying CCC genesis.</jats:p> |
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Munroe, Jeffrey Kimble, Kristin Spötl, Christoph Serrato Marks, Gabriela Mcgee, David Herron, David Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA |
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Munroe, Jeffrey Kimble, Kristin Spötl, Christoph Serrato Marks, Gabriela Mcgee, David Herron, David |
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Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA |
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Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA |
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Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA |
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Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA |
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Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA |
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cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at winter wonderland cave, utah, usa |
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