Clumped Isotope Temperature Reconstruction Using Stalagmite Drip Cups
Despite persistent kinetic effects, lower inferred temperatures from subaqueous drip cup samples suggest closer to equilibrium precipitation compared with subaerial samples. We propose that drip cup carbonates have the potential to yield reliable palaeotemperatures and describe a widely applicable test for clumped isotope kinetic effects in speleothem drip cups by sampling across isochronous layers.
Authors
- M. R. Box
- Jack Longman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2725-2617)
- Stuart Umbo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7828-0266)
- Stacy Carolin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7181-2370)
- Sevasti Modestou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9820-5551)
- Daniel H. James
- Aviva Intveld
- David A. Hodell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-162X)
- Alfredo Martínez‐García
- Carlos Peraza Lope
- Mark Brenner
- Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Institutions
- Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Northumbria University (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (DE)
- Institute of Geological Sciences (UA)
- National Institute of Anthropology and History (MX)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
- Published
- 2026-01-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.70027
- Primary Topic
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00