Special Issue "Speleothems: Geological, Geochronological and Sedimentological Insights"
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 1473
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; carbonates; karstic caves; stable isotopes; speleothems; mineralogy; trace elements; clay minerals; geochemistry; hydrochemistry
Interests: karst; hydrogeology; intensive aquifers exploitation; aquifer management; water quality; isotopes; karst cavities; speleogenesis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (e.g., IPCC, 2013, 2021) have showed that we do not fully understand how abrupt climate changes impact ecosystems and the hydrological cycle. In order to estimate future environmental responses and establish accurate future climate models, it is necessary to reconstruct recent past climate variations. Most common paleoclimate records at long-term time scales are obtained from marine and ice records; nevertheless, these sites are located in remote areas and provide limited information to reconstruct terrestrial ecosystems. Karstic environments provide all the necessary components to preserve past environmental signals at a regional scale since their formation is directly linked with climate and hydrological oscillations, making them ideal paleoclimate records. Therefore, speleothems represent a unique opportunity to obtain high-resolution continental records in a middle latitude with an absolute chronology, allowing the reconstruction of past environments and climatic trends. These environments are unique in that they maintain a constant temperature, which makes them an excellent source of information on climate change. In addition, these paleoclimatic data can be compared with archeological information to understand the relationship between climate and past human societies.
This Special Issue is organized into three sections:
Section 1. Speleogenesis in karst environments: process of cave formation and evolution. Environmental information from speleothems and geophysical information from caves.
Section 2. Speleothem Records of Climate Variability. Reconstructing past temperatures: methods geochemistry, biology, and physics.
Serction 3. Cave Records of Human History.
Dr. Concepción Jiménez de Cisneros
Dr. Antonio González Ramón
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- paleoclimate
- speleothems
- stable isotopes
- caves
- hydroclimate
- fluid inclusions
- geochronology
