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    Visualisation of luminescence excitation-emission timeseries' palaeoclimate implications from a 10,000 year stalagmite record from Ireland


    Baker, Andy and Bolton, Lucy and Brunsdon, Chris and Charlton, Martin (2000) Visualisation of luminescence excitation-emission timeseries' palaeoclimate implications from a 10,000 year stalagmite record from Ireland. Geophysical Research Letters, 27 (14). pp. 2145-2148. ISSN 0094-8276

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    Abstract

    Stalagmite luminescence excitation emission wavelength timeseries can provide high-resolution palaeoclimate records. Here, we employ multidimensional visualisation techniques in order to interpret a 10,000 year luminescence record from a stalagmite from Crag Cave, SW Ireland. Our results demonstrate three periods of distinct luminescence properties: (1) 0-4,000 BP, when they are affected by overlying agriculture. (2) 4,000-9,600 BP, where there is a strong correlation between luminescence and isotopic variations; we suggest the correlation demonstrates a vegetation response to climate change, (3) Before 9,600 BP, where a strong early Holocene transition is visible. Our results suggest that it took about 400-600 years for soils above the cave to stabilise after significant climate or environmental change, and that there was a complex vegetation response between 8,000 and 7,100 BP that my have been a lagged response to the "8.2 ka event"

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Visualisation; luminescence excitation-emission timeseries; Palaeoclimate implications; 10,000 year stalagmite; Ireland;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG
    Item ID: 5976
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1029/2000GL011380
    Depositing User: Martin Charlton
    Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2015 15:44
    Journal or Publication Title: Geophysical Research Letters
    Publisher: American Geophysical Union
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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