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Verfasst von:	Fairchild, Ian J.
	Baker, Andy
Titel:	Speleothem science
Titelzusatz:	from process to past environments
Verf.angabe:	Ian J. Fairchild and Andy Baker
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Verlagsort:	Chichester
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Jahr:	2012
Umfang:	XIV, 432 S., [16] Bl.
Illustrationen:	Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Blackwell quaternary geoscience series
	Blackwell Quaternary Geoscience Ser ; v.2
ISBN:	978-1-4051-9620-8
Abstract:	Speleothems (mineral deposits that formed in caves) are currently giving us some of the most exciting insights into environments and climates during the Pleistocene ice ages and the subsequent Holocene rise of civilizations. The book applies system science to Quaternary environments in a new and rigorous way and gives holistic explanations the relations between the properties of speleothems and the climatic and cave setting in which they are found. It is designed as the ideal companion to someone embarking on speleothem research and, since the underlying science is very broad, it will also be invaluable to a wide variety of others. Students and professional scientists interested in carbonate rocks, karst hydrogeology, climatology, aqueous geochemistry, carbonate geochemistry and the calibration of climatic proxies will find up-to-date reviews of these topics here. The book will also be valuable to Quaternary scientists who, up to now, have lacked a thorough overview of these important archives. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/fairchild/speleothem.
	Intro -- Speleothem Science -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- I: Scientific and geologica lcontext -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction to speleothems and systems -- 1.1 What is all the fuss about? -- 1.1.1 What types of speleothem areuseful for generating climate archives? -- 1.1.2 Where do speleothems occur? -- 1.1.3 How do they form? -- 1.1.4 How do we date them? -- 1.1.5 What are the proxies for past environments and climates? -- 1.1.6 How do speleothems compare with other archives? -- 1.1.7 What next for speleothem science? -- 1.2 How is this book organized? -- 1.3 Concepts and approaches of system science -- Box 1.1 Box models and feedback -- 1.4 The speleothem factory within the karst system -- 1.4.1 Long-term change -- 1.4.2 Annual-scale behaviour -- 1.4.3 Decadal- to multi-millennial-scale changes -- CHAPTER 2: Carbonate and karst cave geology -- 2.1 Carbonates in the Earth system over geological time -- 2.2 Lithologies of carbonate hostrocks -- 2.2.1 Carbonate facies -- 2.2.2 The architecture of carbonate host rocks: sequence stratigraphy -- 2.2.3 Impure and geologically complex host rocks -- 2.2.4 Carbonate porosity -- 2.3 Carbonate diagenesis and eogenetic karst -- 2.3.1 Early diagenesis in marine waters and brines -- 2.3.2 Vadose diagenetic processes -- 2.3.3 Meteoric phreatic diagenesis -- 2.3.4 Eogenetic karst development -- 2.3.5 Burial diagenesis -- 2.4 Speleogenesis in mesogenetic and telogenetic karst (with contributions from John Gunn and David J Lowe) -- 2.4.1 Chronologies of cavedevelopment -- 2.4.2 Geometry of cave passages and systems -- 2.4.3 Localization of caves: the inception horizon hypothesis -- 2.4.4 Mesogenetic caves -- 2.4.5 Modelling the development of conduits and networks -- 2.5 Cave infilling -- 2.5.1 Mechanisms of cave infill and their relative power -- 2.5.2 Dating the infills.
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Schlagwörter:	(s)Höhle    / (s)Kalksinter    / (s)Sediment    / (s)Speläologie    / (s)Paläoklima    / (s)Tropfstein
	(s)Karsthöhle    / (s)Sinter    / (s)Paläoklimatologie    / (s)Mineral    / (s)Mineralogie    / (s)Geochemie
	(s)Höhle    / (s)Aragonit    / (s)Calcit    / (s)Umweltgeochemie
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Reproduktion:	Druckausg.: Fairchild, Ian J.: Speleothem science. - Chichester [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - XIV, 432 S
(Umfang):	Online-Ressource
RVK-Notation:	RB 10121
Sach-SW:	Paleoclimatology
	Speleothems
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