Speleothems from Warm Climates : Holocene Records from the Caribbean and Mediterranean Regions

• Main Author: Boyd, Meighan
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi 2015
• Subjects: Stable isotopes; U-Th dating; trace elements; stalagmite; speleothem; Mid-Holocene; Caribbean; ITCZ; rapid climate change; climate; Eastern Mediterranean; Peloponnese; Santorini; Neolithic; Alepotrypa Cave; Physical Geography; Naturgeografi; Trinidad; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-121750

This thesis contributes to increased knowledge on Holocene climate and environmental variability from two complex and sparsely studied areas. Using a speleothem from Gasparee Cave, Trinidad, as a paleoclimate archive, the local expression of the 8.2 ka (thousand years before 1950) climate event and...