Gabriella Koltai

Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Racine, T., Zhang, H. & Cheng, H. (2025): Response of Alpine cave glaciation to millennial-scale climate variability during the last glacial period. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 365, 109490, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109490.

Cailhol, D., Barriquand, L., Koltai, G. & Temovski M. (2025): Les méandres et terrasses fluviatiles de la Cure, au regard de l’évolution. - Karstologica, 84: 37-50.

Spötl, C. & Koltai, G. (2025): Cryogenic cave carbonates: New insights from alpine ice caves. – Chemical Geology, 685, 122808, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122808.

Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Rinyu, L., Honiat, C., Racine, T., Zhang, H., Krüger, Y. & Dublyansky, Y. (2024): Late-stage evolution of hypogene caves at Tyuya-Muyun (Kyrgyzstan): Quantitative insights from mineral deposits. – Chemical Geology, 670, 122454.

Spötl, C., Knipping, M., Zhang, H. & Koltai, G. (2024): Große (pliozäne?) Tropfsteine in tagfernen Teilen der Eisriesenwelt. – Die Höhle, 75, 112-120.

Audra, P., Bigot, J.-Y., Cailhol, D., Camps, P., D'Angeli, I.M., Edwards, R.L., Gázquez-Sánchez, F., Cheng, H., Koltai, G., Madonia, G., Nobécourt J.-C., Temovski, M., Vattano, M., De Waele, J., 2024. Hypogenic caves of Syracuse area, Sicily (Italy): geomorphological evidence of CO₂ degassing, fresh-salt water mixing, and late condensation corrosion – International Journal of Speleology, 53(2), 211-234, https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.53.2.2516.
 

Töchterle, P., Baldo, A., Murton, J. B., Schenk, F., Edwards, R. L., Koltai, G., Moseley, G. E. (2024): Reconstructing Younger Dryas ground temperature and snow thickness from cave deposits. - Climate of the Past, 20, 1521–1535, .doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1521-2024.

Soleimani, M., Baker, J.L., Nadimi, A., Dublyansky, Y., Koltai, G., Spötl, C. (2024): Decoupled hydroclimate of Central and Southwestern Iran controlled by the strength of southerly-westerly jets during Marine Isotope Stage 3. – Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109797, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109797.

Dublyansky, Y., Töchterle, P., Steck, M.M., Sperlich, D.W., Koltai, G., Cheng, H., Zhang, H., Smirnov, S., Spötl, C. (2024): Size–shape–stable isotope (C, O) relationships of cryogenic cave carbonates formed in permafrost settings. – Chemical Geology, 661, 122183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122183.

Dublyansky, Y.V., Moseley, G.E., Koltai, G., Töchterle, P., Spötl, C. (2024): Cryogenic cave carbonates. – Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Third Edition, vol. 5, 411-421, UK (Elsevier),

Vieten, R., Warken, S.F., Zanchettin, D., Winter, A., Scholz, D., Black, D., Koltai, G., Spötl, C. (2024): Northeastern Caribbean rainfall variability linked to solar and volcanic forcing. – Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39, e2023PA004720, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004720.

 

Koltai, G., Kluge, T., Krüger, Y., Spötl, C., Rinyu, L., Audra, P., Honiat, C., Leél-Őssy, S., Dublyansky, Y. (2024):  Geothermometry of calcite spar at 10-50°C. – Scientific Reports, 14:1553, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51937-4.

Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Koltai, G., Racine, T., Plan, L. (2023): The Obir caves adjacent to the Periadriatic Fault in southern Austria: Uplifted hypogene caves formed by carbonic acid speleogenesis. – Geomorphology, 441, 108901, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108901.

Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Dublyansky, Y. (2023): Mode of formation of cryogenic cave carbonates: Experimental evidence from an Alpine ice cave. – Chemical Geology, 638, 121712, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121712.

Honiat, C., Koltai, G., Dublyansky, Y., Edwards, R.L., Zhang, H., Cheng, H., Spötl, C. (2023): A paleoprecipitation and paleotemperature reconstruction of the Last Interglacial in the southeastern Alps. – Climate of the Past, 19, 1177-1199.

Spötl, C., Jarosch, A., Saxer, A., Koltai, G., Zhang, H. (2023): Thermoelasticity of ice explains widespread damage in dripstone caves during glacial periods. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 13:7407, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34499-9.

Soleimani, M., Nadimi, A., Koltai, G., Dublyansky, Y., Carolin, S., Spötl, C. (2023): Stalagmite evidence of Last Glacial Maximum to early Holocene climate variability in southwestern Iran. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 38, 308-318.

Pisani, L., Koltai, G., Dublyansky, Y., Kleine, B.I., Whitehouse, M., Scrzypek, E., Carbone, C., Spötl, C., Antonellini, M., Bezerra, F.H., De Waele, J. (2023): Hydrothermal silicification and hypogene dissolution of an exhumed Neoproterozoic carbonate sequence in Brazil: Insights from fluid inclusion microthermometry and silicon-oxygen isotopes. – Basin Research, 35, 1102-1127.

Plan, L., Buchegger, G.,  Kaminsky, E., Koltai, G., Racine, T., Szczygieł, J. (2022):  Flow regime evolution of a major cave system in the Eastern Alps (Hirlatzhöhle, Dachstein). - International Journal of Speleology, 51, 181-191.

Plan, L., Kaminsky, E., Racine, T., Koltai, G. (2021): Genetische Interpretation der Eisriesenwelt (Tennengebirge). – Die Höhle, 72, 117-138.

Palcsu, L., Gessert, A., Túri, M., Kovács, A., Futó, I., Orsovszki, J., Puskás-Preszner, A., Temowski, M., Koltai, G. (2021): Long-term time series of environmental tracers reveal recharge and discharge conditions in shallow karst aquifers in Hungary and Slovakia. – Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 36, 100858.
 

Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Jarosch, A., Cheng, H. (2021): Cryogenic cave carbonates in the Dolomites (northern Italy): insights into Younger Dryas cooling and seasonal precipitation. - Climate of the Past, 17, 775–789.

Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Koltai, G., Honiat, C., Plan, L., Angerer, T. (2021): Stable isotope imprint of hypogene speleogenesis: Lessons from Austrian caves. – Chemical Geology, 572, 120209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120209.

Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Jarosch, A., Cheng, H. (2021): Increased autumn and winter precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum in the European Alps. – Nature Communications, 12:1839, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22090-7.

Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Koltai, G., Cheng, H. (2021): Hypogene speleogenesis and paragenesis in the Dolomites. – Geomorphology, 382, 107667.

Demény, A., Rinyu, L., Kern, Z., Hatvani, I.G., Czuppon, Gy., Surányi, G., Leél-Őssy, Sz., Shen, C.-C., Koltai, G. (2021): Paleotemperature reconstructions using speleothem fluid inclusion analyses from Hungary - Chemical Geology, 536, 120051.
 

Columbu, A., Audra, P., Gázquez, F., D'Angeli, I.M., Bigot, J.-Y., Koltai, G., Chiesa, R., Yu, T.-L., Hu, H.-M., Shen, C.-C., Carbone, C., Heresanu, V., Nobécourt, J.-C., De Waele, J. (2021): Hypogenic speleogenesis, late stage epigenic overprinting and condensation-corrosion in a complex cave system in relation to landscape evolution (Toirano, Liguria, Italy). - Geomorphology, 376, 107561.

Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Racine, T. (2020): Einblicke in Vereisungsgeschichte der Eisriesenwelt (Tennengebirge). – Die Höhle, 71, 45-61.

Comas-Bru, L., Harrison, S. P., Werner, M., Rehfeld, K., Scroxton, N., Veiga-Pires, C., and SISAL working group members including Carolin, S., Koltai, G., Luetscher, M., Moseley, G.E. (2019): Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial, - Climate of the Past, 15, 1557–1579. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1557-2019
 

Koltai, G., Ostermann, M., Cheng, H. & Spötl, C. (2018): Can vein-filling speleothems constrain the timing of deep-seated gravitational slope deformation? A case study from the Vinschgau (Italian Alps). – Landslides, 15, 2243-2254.

Atsawawaranunt, K., Comas-Bru, L., Amirnezhad Mozhdehi, S., et al and SISAL Working Group Members including Carolin, S., Koltai, G., Luetscher, M., Moseley, G.E. 2018.: The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems. Earth System Science Data, 10:1687-1713. DOI: 10.5194/essd-10-1687-2018

Palcsu, L., Morgenstern, U., Sültenfuss, J., Koltai, G., László, E., Temovski, M., Major, Z., Nagy, J.T., Papp, L., Varlam, C., Faurescu, I., Túri, M., Rinyu, L., Czuppon, G., Bottyán, E. & Jull, A.J.T. (2018): Modulation of cosmogenic Tritium in meteoric precipitation by the 11-year cycle of solar magnetic field activity. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 8:12813, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-31208-9.

Dublyansky, Y., Moseley, G.E., Liakhnitsky, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Scholz, D., Koltai, G. & Spötl, C. (2018): Late Palaeolithic cave art and permafrost in the Southern Ural. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 8:12080, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-30049-w.

Koltai, G., Cheng, H., Spötl, C. (2018): Palaeoclimate significance of speleothems in crystalline rocks: a test case from the Late Glacial and early Holocene (Vinschgau, northern Italy). – Climate of the Past, 14, 369-381.

Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Luetscher, M., Cheng, H., Barrett, S.J., Müller, W. (2017): The nature of annual lamination in flowstones from non-karstic fractures, Vinschgau (northern Italy). – Chemical Geology, 457, 1-14.

Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Shen, C.-C., Wu, C.-C., Rao, Z., Palcsu, L., Kele, S., Surányi, G., Bárány-Kevei, I. (2017): A penultimate glacial climate record from southern Hungary. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 32, 946-956.