Studies of Cave Sediments: Physical and Chemical Records of Paleoclimate

by I. D. Sasowsky (Editor), John Mylroie (Editor)

Overview

Caves serve as unique repositories for geologic, biologic, and anthropologic information. The sediments within these natural cavities are incredibly diverse. They include secondary minerals such as calcite and gypsum, which occur in sundry forms, as well as allogenic and autogenic clasts. This book is for any geoscience researcher or student with interests in climate change, paleohydrology, karst geology, and sedimentology. Studies of Cave Sediments is the first comprehensive volume on cave sediments. It provides case-studies from around the world, gives guidance on appropriate applications of techniques, and their limitations, synthesizes methods that can be used to decipher complex deposits, and includes chemical deposits (speleothems) as well as clastic sediments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789400787001
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/29/2014
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	329
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Lithofacies And Transport Of Clastic Sediments In Karstic Aquifers.- Sediment And Sediment-Associated Contaminant Transport Through Karst.- Palaeomagnetic Analysis Of Sediments In The Buchan Caves, Southeastern Australia, Provides A Pre-Late Pleisene Date For Landscape And Climate Evolution.- Paleomagnetic Analysis Of A Long-Term Sediment Trap, Kooken Cave, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA.- Provenance Of Suspended Sediment Discharged From A Karst Aquifer Determined By Clay Mineralogy.- Reading Virginia's Paleoclimate From The Geochemistry And Sedimentology Of Clastic Cave Sediments.- Glacially-Influenced Sediment Cycles In He Lime Creek Karst, Eagle County, Colorado.- Cave Sediments And Denuded Caverns In The Laski Ravnik, Classical Karst Of Slovenia.- Paleoclimate Records From Speleothems In Limestone Caves.- Uranium-Series Dating Of Speleothemes: Current Techniques, Limits amp; Applications.- Paleoclimate Information From Speleothems: The Present As A Guide To The Past.- Influence Of Depositional Environment On Devil's Hole Calcite Morphology And Petrology.- Speleothems From The High-Alpine Spannagel Cave, Zillertal Alps (Austria).- Isotope Stage 11, The ‘Super-Interglacial’, From A North Norwegian Speleothem.- Establishing A Speleothem Chronology For Southwestern Oregon.- Silicates In Carbonate Speleothems, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, U.S.A..- Reliquiae Diluvianae Alter: Last Interglacial Flood Deposits In The Caves Of The West Indies.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"Studies of Cave Sediments focuses on … Quaternary (historic to 1.8 million years old) paleoclimate information preserved in cave sediments. The review chapters … are excellent introductions to the subject areas for graduate students, research scientists, and senior-level undergraduates. … Overall, the quality of this publication is very high, with good black-and-white illustrations, a clear layout, good referencing and indexing, and no typographical errors … ." (Andy Baker, Eos, Vol. 88 (42), 2007)

"Paleoclimate studies are indeed becoming increasingly more complex. … The book covers some preferentially selected … physical and chemical geologic, biologic, and anthropologic speleothemic data of cave or karst sediments to reconstruct paleoclimates. … The book naturally appeals to climatologist experts, but also to any specialist and intelligent ‘generalist’ or amateur scientist interested in cave/karst/speleological features." (Karl Wolf, The Australian Geologist Newsletter, Vol. 37, 2008)

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