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that are evident in the speleothem data and those recorded in Greenland has shown
subtle differences in timing and intensity in areas such as Tunisia and southern France
(Genty et al.,
2006
). Another example will suffice to show the versatility and wide
applicability of speleothem research. The very precise chronology now available from
the Antro del Corchia Cave speleothems in north-west Italy has allowed millennial
scale cold events evident in North Atlantic marine cores to be precisely dated for the
first time, namely, to 112-109 ka and 105-102.6 ka (Drysdale et al.,
2007
). Speleothem
research is of far-reaching global significance, and an invaluable adjunct to less exactly
dated studies of desert dunes, lakes, rivers, dust and fossils. It is therefore no surprise
that in his review of karst geomorphology, caves and cave deposits, Ford (
2006
,p.9)
commented on 'a worldwide speleothem paleoclimate bandwagon in environmental
sciences today'.
