• Non ci sono risultati.

The purpose of this thesis is to reconstruct the paleoclimate record of the past climatic conditions during the Holocene.

N/A
N/A
Info
Scarica
Protected

Academic year: 2021

Condividi "The purpose of this thesis is to reconstruct the paleoclimate record of the past climatic conditions during the Holocene. "

Copied!
1
0
0

Caricamento.... (Visualizza il testo completo ora)

Scarica adesso ( 1 pagine )

Testo completo

(1)

ABSTRACT Chiara Nocchi

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this thesis is to reconstruct the paleoclimate record of the past climatic conditions during the Holocene.

To obtain this, the analyses of three stalagmites, from the Corchia Cave, were conducted. This Cave, located in the south-western part of the Alpi Apuane (NW Tuscany, Italy), is the most important Italian karst system: its extension reaches about 60 km of cave passages.

The analyzed stalagmites are only a small part of the available material, because this cave kindles interest in researches, also due to the large amount of uranium in the concretions that allows to date very well these.

The stalagmites, CC53, CC4 and CC27, were collected in the so-called "Galleria delle Stalattiti", a phreatic conduit in the Corchia Cave, placed ca. 870 m a.s.l.

The stable isotopes analyses were conducted in the Laboratories of the Geology Faculty of the University of Newcastle and U/Th dating at the School of Hearth Sciences, to the University of Melbourne.

The GV2003 mass spectrometer was used to perform stable isotopes analyses (oxygen and carbon). With this date, a preliminary curves were construct, and from this is possible to recognize positive and negative peaks, respectively related to colder and warmer period.

Later, the age determinations were conducted, using a spectrometer MC-ICPMS for the application of the U-Th method. Preliminary age models were then obtained and stable isotopes records were transformed in time series.

The stalagmite CC53 shows a period of growth between ca. 6000 and 400 years, corresponding to the second part of the Holocene. In the oxygen and carbon trends it was possible to observe the last part of the "Hypsithermal" and the next period, called "Neoglacial", marked by an increase in the oxygen isotopic composition.

During this cold period there are several minor phases, but the most evident is the

so-called "Medieval Warm Period", ca. between 1000 and 850 years ago, where

the values are very negative. Although the age model of the second stalagmite

(CC4) is not as good as the CC53, general trends are comparable, supporting the

genuine climatic signal embedded in these two stalagmites.

Riferimenti

Scarica adesso ( PDF - 1 pagine - 6.68 KB )

Documenti correlati

The purpose of the last thesis project is to apply unconventional mathematical and geometrical methods to study the growth of foraminiferal tests.

Furthermore, the definition of the paleogeographic distribution of some of the main groups of foraminifera lets to provide a hypothesis of paleogeographic reconstruction of

In this chapter a brief description is provided of the properties of the components of the systems investigated in the present thesis.

Hydrophobic compounds are favorably partitioned in the non-polar microenvironment, while metal ions can bind electrostatically to the polar head of the surfactant, or can be

The starting point of this thesis were the elements physically available at the laboratory of ALTA s.p.a., that served as reference for the development of the of the thruster

E’ stato ricavato un disegno preliminare del propulsore e basandosi su questa configurazione iniziale è stata effettuata un’analisi magnetica per verificare il

1.2 Purpose of the thesis

The revised rule of ECCS contains three key features: the existing acceptance criteria were retained; evaluation model methods based on Appendix K may continue to be used as an

In general, the magnitude of the so-called rock mass pressure is determined by the energy

The disclosed displacements are the result of deformation of the bolt material in the elastic and plastic range as well as the properties of the bonding materials used (cement,

The candidate also declares that all the materials used during the preparation of the thesis have been explicitly indicated in the text and in the section "Bibliographical references&#34

found that criminal companies have a higher level of indebtedness with respect to non-criminal companies (that have the same dimensions and belong to the same sectors); in

The main issue of this thesis is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed OLED structure by using theoretical models created during the three years of the Ph.D

Finally, with a good agreement with the experimental data, the theoretical model is used to predict optical and electrical behaviour of different hexagonal

THE THEATRE OF THE SOLDIER &#34

The first part of this research has taken advantage of the consultation of many heterogeneous sources: the most important studies on Neapolitan culture of the century and