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2016•Scientific Annals of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava Geography SeriesOpen access

A MIS 5e high-altitude speleothem δ13C-δ18O record from the Romanian Carpathians

Virgil Drăgușin

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We present here a speleothem δ 13 C-δ 18 O record from the Last Interglacial period that was retrieved from a small cave in the Fagaras Mountains (2435 m asl). Current monitoring work shows that the average temperature inside the cave is ~3°C. Stalagmite M3-R2/1 is only 5 cm long and its growth model was calculated using six U-Th ages. According to this, the stalagmite formed between 125.5 (±1.3) and 123 (±1.3) ka, during the warmest stage of the Last Interglacial

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We present here a speleothem δ 13 C-δ 18 O record from the Last Interglacial period that was retrieved from a small cave in the Fagaras Mountains (2435 m asl). Current monitoring work shows that the average temperature inside the cave is ~3°C. Stalagmite M3-R2/1 is only 5 cm long and its growth model was calculated using six U-Th ages. According to this, the stalagmite formed between 125.5 (±1.3) and 123 (±1.3) ka, during the warmest stage of the Last Interglacial

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We present here a speleothem δ 13 C-δ 18 O record from the Last Interglacial period that was retrieved from a small cave in the Fagaras Mountains (2435 m asl). Current monitoring work shows that the average temperature inside the cave is ~3°C. Stalagmite M3-R2/1 is only 5 cm long and its growth model was calculated using six U-Th ages. According to this, the stalagmite formed between 125.5 (±1.3) and 123 (±1.3) ka, during the warmest stage of the Last Interglacial

Key concepts: Speleothem, Stalagmite, Cave, Interglacial, Geology, Altitude (triangle), δ18O, Physical geography

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