Multi-proxy, multi-archive, climate records in the caves of Romania - a review

Owing to its geographical location and geological settings, Romania has the potential of excellent paleoclimate archives from cave deposits because: (i) include extensive karst regions, with numerous caves that are usually well-documented; (ii) caves in Romania usually host abundant speleothems, suitable for high-resolution paleoclimate records; (iii) located at middle latitudes (44-45°N) speleothems from Romania are likely to preserve the longest speleothem records even during extreme climatic events; (iv) the regions located in the inner and outer parts of the Carpathian range experience slightly different climate conditions being influenced differently by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); (v) numerous Romanian caves host simultaneously several types of deposits that may provide independent and coeval paleoclimate records.