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SUBMITTER: Baker A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4464153 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baker Andy A C Hellstrom John J Kelly Bryce F J BF Mariethoz Gregoire G Trouet Valerie V
Scientific reports 20150611
Annually laminated stalagmites can be used to construct a precise chronology, and variations in laminae thickness provide an annual growth-rate record that can be used as a proxy for past climate and environmental change. Here, we present and analyse the first composite speleothem annual growth-rate record based on five stalagmites from the same cave system in northwest Scotland, where precipitation is sensitive to North Atlantic climate variability and the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO ...[more]