Sentences with phrase «using stalagmites»

Well, it leaves me with dozens of other proxy reconstructions, some by the same team or involving some of its members, some by completely different people, some using tree rings, some using corals, some using stalagmites, some using borehole measurements — all supporting the same general conclusion.

UNLV researchers are using these stalagmites to better understand past droughts in the Desert Southwest and what can be done to prepare for them in the future.

The research used stalagmites collected from Heshang Cave in central China within the Yangtze River drainage.

To generate a drought history for Nevada, researchers are using a stalagmite collected from Leviathan Cave in the new Basin and Range National Monument.

Not exact matches

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.

The study of five stalagmites in Roaring Cave north of Ullapool in north - west Scotland is the first to use a compilation of cave measurements to track changes in a climate phenomenon called the North Atlantic Oscillation.

The researchers determined the depositional age of the two stalagmites, collected in Qal» e Kord Cave in central northern Iran, using a technique called uranium - thorium geochronometry conducted in the UM Rosenstiel School's Neptune Isotope Lab.

Uranium - series uses the decay of uranium and thorium isotopes (238U, 235U and 232Th) in calcites in particular, such as stalactites and stalagmites in caves.

A huge cave system in southern Yucatan near the small town of Oxkutzcab, Loltun boasts impressive stalactites and stalagmites and was used as a refuge by nomadic hunters in prehistoric times and by the ancient Maya.

Adorned with amazing stalactites and stalagmites, the guides will tell stories of civilizations past as they use spotlights to point out Maya pottery shards and remains in the depths below.

Departing from the monumental forms Donovan produced of layered and heaped styrene cards suggesting stalagmites or wind - eroded outcroppings — which comprised part of her solo exhibition at Pace 25th Street in 2014 — the new series inverts the sculptural logic of voluminous horizontal stacking by the use of the frame as a means to control the density and orientation of the styrene cards.

For example check out the paper of Frapier (2005) describing the testing of a method for identifying tropical cyclone events using isotope ratios in the cores of stalagmites.

The team measured trace elements and stable isotopes in stalagmites from the Indonesian island of Flores and used them to reconstruct ancient rainfall, comparing them to records from East Asia and the central - eastern equatorial Pacific.

A new study using a high - resolution stalagmite record from Australia with cave sites in southern China reveal a close coupling of monsoon rainfall on both continents, with numerous synchronous pluvial and drought periods, suggesting that the tropical rain belt expanded and contracted numerous times at multidecadal to centennial scales.

These researchers used historical data detailing temperatures as well as cave stalagmites to show a recurring 200 - year solar cycle called the DeVries Cycle.

journal that they examined the chemical makeup of stalagmites collected from a cave in southern Belize, in Central America, and used their data to reconstruct the pattern of hurricane rainfall over the last 450 years.

She and colleagues write in Scientific Reports journal that they examined the chemical makeup of stalagmites collected from a cave in southern Belize, in Central America, and used their data to reconstruct the pattern of hurricane rainfall over the last 450 years.

The analysis below used the ratio of oxygen isotopes in the stalagmites to estimate the water temperature at the time they were formed.

If we don't understand the physics well enough to know how, all things being equal, band widths will vary by size of the stalagmite, then we don't understand the physics well enough to use it confidently as a climate proxy.