Sentences with phrase «dated stalagmite»
The article, «Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño / Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia,» presents a precisely dated stalagmite record of cave flooding events that are tied to tropical cyclones, which include storms such as hurricanes and typhoons.
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By dating a stalagmite that had grown on the hip bone, they were able to narrow down the age of the human bones from the Chan Hol Cave.
They also used standard radiometric techniques to date stalagmites from Eagle Cave, which gave them information about fluxes in precipitation during the time the glaciers covered the land.
Not exact matches
«Stalagmites are a very interesting proxy because they can be very well dated and they can also be measured at high resolution to give us oxygen measurements that we can relate to rainfall,» Carolin said.
To find out, Valerie Trouet at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensdorf and colleagues studied the growth rate of trees in Morocco and a stalagmite in Scotland, both dating back 1000 years, to determine rainfall levels during the MCA.
Researchers linked dated graffiti about droughts in a cave in China to physical evidence in the cave of the water shortages, such as changes in ratios of stable isotopes in specific layers of stalagmites
A stalactite and stalagmite pair of dripstone speleothems from a newly found submerged cave system on the west wall of the Blue Hole at a depth of 135 feet along with the other samples will be dated by Dr. Yename Asmerom.
Enter the Mayan underworld to observe natural history dating back millions of years as you hike and swim through a 600 - meter route full of awe inspiring stalactites and stalagmites in this protected nature reserve river.
Indeed, pervious studies have tied increases in the C14 in tree rings, and hence reduced solar irradiance, to Holocene glacial advances in Scandinavia, expansions of the Holocene Polar Atmosphere circulation in Greenland; and abrupt cooling in the Netherlands about 2700 years ago... Well dated, high resolution measurements of O18 in stalagmite from Oman document five periods of reduced rainfall centered at times of strong solar minima at 6300, 7400, 8300, 9000, and 9500 years ago.»
Père Noël (PN) stalagmite covers the last 12.7 ka according to U / Th dating.
The new study sheds light in a new way to examine and date pollen found in stalagmites, flowstones and stalactites.