Researchers study the climatic changes based on calcite stalactites and stalagmites
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 09:56
in Earth & Climate
Researchers of the University of Almeria UAL are analysing, for the first time ever at an international level, the palaeoclimatic record of calcite speleothems (stalactites and stalagmites). The experts hope that these calcium structures, an excellent climatic natural record, will provide information about extremely dry periods of time. The main objective of this study consists of getting to know climatic changes throughout the history of the Earth in order to reconstruct the past and deduce the existence of general climatic behaviour trends, as well a the subsequent responses of the environment in temporary scales of tens to thousands of years...