Dharamjali speleothem trace elements and stable isotopes

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A 25-cm long predominantly aragonite stalagmite was collected November 2, 2005 from Dharamjali Cave (29.5°N, 80.2°E) in the central Himalayas. This dataset contains stable isotope, trace element, XRF, U/Th dating, and dripwater data. The age model spans 4.2 to 2.3 ka BP, and the dataset records seasonal shifts in hydroclimate from 4.2 to 3.1 ka BP. Using the DHAR-1A half of the speleothem, 750 samples were milled at 100–300 µm resolution for stable isotope analysis (δ18O and δ13C) and analyzed at GFZ Potsdam. Further high-resolution stable isotope analysis at the University of Cambridge included 876 samples from the bottom 4 cm of the mirroring slab DHAR-1B, covering c. 4.2–3.6 ka BP. The δ44/40Ca measurements were made on 60 aragonite samples of aragonite and 1 calcite sample milled between 4.2 and 2.8 ka BP. The elemental composition of DHAR-1B was determined first with an Avaatech XRF scanner at the University of Cambridge, and later using laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) at the University of Waikato. U-series dating was performed at Caltech on 22 samples. Twelve U-series ages (between 2.55 and 4.14 ka BP) were used to construct the age models, using ensembles of 2000 Monte Carlo simulations for each proxy using the MATLAB-based COPRA script (Breitenbach et al., 2012, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1765-2012).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956928
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Creator Giesche, Alena ORCID logo; Hodell, David A ORCID logo; Petrie, Cameron A ORCID logo; Haug, Gerald H; Adkins, Jess F ORCID logo; Plessen, Birgit ORCID logo; Marwan, Norbert ORCID logo; Bradbury, Harold J ORCID logo; Hartland, Adam ORCID logo; French, Amanda D ORCID logo; Breitenbach, Sebastian F M ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000268 Crossref Funder ID BB/P027970/1 TIGR2ESS: Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies; European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Crossref Funder ID 691037 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/691037 QUantitative paleoEnvironments from SpeleoThems; European Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000781 Crossref Funder ID 648609 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/648609 Winter Rain, Summer Rain: Adaptation, Climate Change, Resilience and the Indus Civilisation; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID MA4759/11-1 Nonlinear empirical mode analysis of complex systems: Development of general approach and application in climate; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID MA4759/9-1/386137731 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/386137731 Recurrence plot analysis of regime changes in dynamical systems; Natural Environment Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000270 Crossref Funder ID NE/R013519/1 Solving the evolution of carbonate porosity: a dynamic solution for enhanced oil recovery and carbon capture and storage; Royal Society of New Zealand https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001509 Crossref Funder ID RDF-UOW1601 Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Discovery Fellowship
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 44 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (80.200 LON, 29.500 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2006-04-07T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2006-10-26T00:00:00Z