Complex speleothem growth processes revealed by trace element mapping and scanning electron microscopy of annual layers

Treble, Pauline; Chappell, John; Shelley, Michael

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Complex speleothem growth processes revealed by trace element mapping and scanning electron microscopy of annual layers

Date

2005

Authors

Treble, Pauline

Chappell, John

Shelley, Michael

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

Closely-spaced transects measured by excimer laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ELA-ICPMS) at 5 and 32 μm spatial resolution are used to generate trace element composition maps (Ba, Sr, Mg, U, Na, P and Al) from MND-S1, a previo