Chronology of discontinuities and petrology of speleothems as paleoclimatic indicators of the Klamath Mountains, southwest Oregon, USA

Speleothems from Oregon Caves National Monument, a dissolutional cave system located in the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon, are composed mainly (>90%) of columnar calcite crystals. Columnar calcites form through syndepositional lateral coalescence of crystallites and precipitate under stab...

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Published in:Carbonates and evaporites 2001-09, Vol.16 (2), p.153-167
Main Authors: Turgeon, Steven, Lundberg, Joyce
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alpine regions
Calcite
Caves
Climate change
Coalescence
Coalescing
Crystal growth
Crystal structure
Crystallites
Crystals
Discontinuity
Freezing
Glacial periods
Glaciation
Glaciology
Groundwater
Growth rate
Hiatuses
Hydrodynamics
Ice ages
Interglacial periods
Isotopes
Mountains
Outcrops
Petrology
Ponding
Water film
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Summary:Speleothems from Oregon Caves National Monument, a dissolutional cave system located in the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon, are composed mainly (>90%) of columnar calcite crystals. Columnar calcites form through syndepositional lateral coalescence of crystallites and precipitate under stable hydrodynamic conditions in humid, temperate climates. Numerous discontinuities from short-lived events (
ISSN:0891-2556
1878-5212
DOI:10.1007/BF03175833