Speläotheme sind sekundäre Mineralablagerungen in Höhlen, die meist in Form von Tropfsteinen wie Stalagmiten oder Stalaktiten vorkommen
Stalactites help study past climate / Hydroclimate fluctuations and increased fires are linked. Speläotheme sind sekundäre Mineralablagerungen in Höhlen, die meist in Form von Tropfsteinen wie Stalagmiten oder Stalaktiten vorkommen - To better assess future climate trends, researchers are trying to uncover and analyze evidence from past times. In an international research collaboration, scientists have now studied the Misox Oscillation some 8,200 years ago using stalactites from White Moon Cave in northern California. Novel indicators show that in California, fluctuations between extreme wetness and drought on the one hand and forest fires on the other were closely linked. This phenomenon is likely to increase with human-induced climate change, expect the researchers involved from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Vanderbilt University in Nashville, USA, and Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The work was published in Nature Communications . Dripstones serve as valuable climate archives.
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