Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-369-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-369-2018
Research article
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16 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 16 Mar 2018

Palaeoclimate significance of speleothems in crystalline rocks: a test case from the Late Glacial and early Holocene (Vinschgau, northern Italy)

Gabriella Koltai, Hai Cheng, and Christoph Spötl

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Here we present a multi-proxy study of flowstones in fractures of crystalline rocks with the aim of assessing the palaeoclimate significance of this new type of speleothem archive. Our results indicate a high degree of spatial heterogeneity, whereby changes in speleothem mineralogy and carbon isotope composition are likely governed by aquifer-internal processes. In contrast, the oxygen isotope composition reflects first-order climate variability.