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Deciphering clues to prehistoric climate changes locked in cave deposits

2015-05-24 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: When the conversation turns to the weather and the climate, most people's thoughts naturally drift upward toward the clouds, but Jessica Oster's sink down into the subterranean world of stalactites and stalagmites. That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate. It...

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