Publications

Németh, P., Mugnaioli, E., Gemmi, M., Czuppon, G., Demény, A., Spötl, C. (2018): A nanocrystalline monoclinic CaCO3 precursor of metastable aragonite. – Science Advances, 4: eaau6178, doi; 10.1126/sciadv.aau6178

Li, H., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Kathayat, G., Spötl, C., André, A.A., Meunier, A., Biswas, J., Duan, P., Ning, Y., Edwards, R.L. (2018): Hydro-climatic variability in the southwestern Indian Ocean between 6000 and 3000 years ago. – Climate of the Past, 14, 1881-1891.

Zhang, H.W., Cheng, H., Cai, Y., Spötl, C., Kathayat, G., Sinha, A., Edwards, R.L., Tan, L. (2018): Hydroclimatic variations in southeastern China during the 4.2 ka event reflected by stalagmite records. – Climate of the Past, 14, 1805-1817.

Dublyansky, Y., Lyakhnitsky, Y., Spötl, C. (2018): Data on the 14C date obtained from the charcoal figure “Blackfox” in Shulgan-Tash (Kapova) cave, Southern Ural, Russia. – Data in Brief, 21, 1101-1105.

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.

Spinapolice, E., Zerboni, A., Meyer, M.C., Usai, D. (2018): Early human occupation at al-Jamrab (White Nile region, central Sudan): a contribution to the understanding of the MSA of Eastern Africa.  Journal of African Archaeology 16, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1163/21915784-20180010

Wendt, K.A., Dublyansky, Y.V., Moseley, G.E., R Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Spötl, C. (2018): Moisture availability in the southwest United States over the last three glacial-interglacial cycles. – Science Advances, 4: eaau1375, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau1375.

Weber, M., Scholz, D., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Deininger, M., Spötl, C., Lugli, F., Mertz-Kraus, R., Jochum, K.P., Fohlmeister, J., Stumpf, C.F., Riechelmann, D.C.F. (2018): Evidence of warm and humid interstadials in central Europe during early MIS 3 revealed by a multi-proxy speleothem record. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 200, 276-286.

Wolfgring, E., Wagreich, M., Dinarès-Turell, J., Gier, S., Böhm, K., Sames, B., Spötl, C., Popp, F. (2018): The Santonian - Campanian boundary and the end of the Long Cretaceous Normal Polarity-Chron: Isotope and plankton stratigraphy of a pelagic reference section in the NW Tethys (Austria). – Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 51, 445-476.

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

Sürmelihindi, G., Leveau,  P., Spötl, C., Bourgeois, M., Bernard, V., Passchier, C.W. (2018): The second century CE Roman watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the enigma of one of the oldest industrial complexes. – Science Advances, 4 : eaar3620, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar3620.

Pacher, M., Erler, R. & Spötl, C. (2018): Funde von holozänen Braunbären und Steinböcken in Höhlen des Tuxertales (Tirol) – Die Höhle, 69, 90-99.

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.

Spötl, C. (2018): Aktuelle Wachstumsdynamik der Eisstalagmiten in der Hundsalm Eis- und Tropfsteinhöhle (Tirol). – Die Höhle, 69, 84-89.
 

Spötl, C., Brandstätter, S., Moseley, G. & Offenbecher, K.-H. (2018): Tropfsteine als Zeugnisse und Zeitmesser der Vergangenheit. – In: Höh(l)enluft und Wissensraum. Die Gassel-Tropfsteinhöhle im Salzkammergut zwischen Alltagskultur, Naturkunde und wissenschaftlicher Forschung (Ed. by J. Mattes & D. Kuffner), Denisia, 40, 283-290.

Spötl, C. & Offenbecher, K.-H. (2018): Höhlenluft und Bewetterung der Gassel-Tropfsteinhöhle. – In: Höh(l)enluft und Wissensraum. Die Gassel-Tropfsteinhöhle im Salzkammergut zwischen Alltagskultur, Naturkunde und wissenschaftlicher Forschung (Ed. by J. Mattes & D. Kuffner), Denisia, 40, 277-282.
 

Gliganic, L.A., Meyer, M.C., Sohbati, R., Jain, M., Barrett, S. (2018): OSL surface exposure dating of a lithic quarry in Tibet: laboratory validation and application. Quaternary Geochronology, doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2018.04.012.

Meyer, M.C., Gliganic, L.A., Jain, M., Sohbati, R., Schmidmair, D. (2018): Lithological controls on light penetration into rock surfaces – implications for OSL and IRSL surface exposure dating. Radiation Measurements, doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.03.004.

Dublyansky, Y.V., Klimchouk, A.B. Tokarev, S., Amelichev, G.N., Langhamer, L. & Spötl, C.(2018): Stable isotopic composition of atmospheric precipitation on the Crimean Peninsula and its controlling factors. – Journal of Hydrology, 565, 61-73.

Warken, S.F., Fohlmeister, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Constantin, S., Spötl, C., Gerdes, A., Esper, J., Frank, N., Arps, J., Terente, M., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Mangini, A. & Scholz, D. (2018): Reconstruction of late Holocene autumn/winter precipitation variability in SW Romania from a high-resolution speleothem trace element record. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 499, 122-133.

Zhang, H.W., Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Cai, Y., Sinha, A., Tan, L., Yi, L., Yan, H., Kathayat, G., Ning, Y., Li, X., Zhang, F., Zhao, J., Edwards, R.L. (2018): A 200-year annually laminated stalagmite record of precipitation seasonality in southeastern China and its linkages to ENSO and PDO. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 8:12344, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-30112-6.

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.

Spötl, C. (2018): Moonmilk as a human and veterinary medicine: evidence of past artisan mining in caves of the Austrian Alps. – International Journal of Speleology, 47, 127-135.

Barrett, S., Drescher-Schneider, R., Starnberger, R., Spötl, C. (2018): Evaluation of the regional vegetation and climate in the Eastern Alps (Austria) during MIS 3–4 based on pollen analysis of the classical Baumkirchen paleolake sequence. – Quaternary Research, 90, 153-163.

Cohen, T.J., Meyer, M.C., May, J.-H. (2018): Identifying extreme pluvials in the last millennia using optical dating of single grains of quartz from shorelines on Australia’s largest lake. – The Holocene, 28, 150-165.

Spötl, C., Reimer, P.J., Rabeder, G., Bronk Ramsey, C. (2018): Radiocarbon constraints on the age of the world's highest-elevation cave-bear population, Conturines Cave (Dolomites, Northern Italy). – Radiocarbon, 60, 299-307.

Johnston, V.E., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Töchterle, P., Hellstrom, J.C., Bajo, P., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2018): Evidence of thermophilisation and elevation-dependent warming during the Last Interglacial in the Italian Alps. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 8:2680, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-21027-3.

Fohlmeister, J., Arps, J., Spötl, C., Schröder‐Ritzrau, A., Plessen, A., Günter, C., Frank, N., Trüssel, M. (2018): Carbon and oxygen isotope fractionation in the water‐calcite‐aragonite system. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 235, 127-139.

Luetscher, M., Jeannin, P.-Y. (2018): Ice caves in Switzerland. – in: Ice caves (Persoiu, A. & Lauritzen, S.-E), 221-223, Amsterdam, Elsevier.

Žák, K., Onac, B.P., Kadebskaya, O.I., Filippi, M., Dublyansky, Y., Luetscher, M. (2018): Cryogenic mineral formation in caves. – in: Ice caves (Persoiu, A. & Lauritzen, S.-E), 123-162, Amsterdam, Elsevier.

Spötl, C., Wimmer, M., Pavuza, R., Plan, L. (2018): Ice caves in Austria. – in: Ice caves (Persoiu, A. & Lauritzen, S.-E), 237-262, Amsterdam, Elsevier.

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.

Spötl, C., Reimer, P.J., Göhlich, U.B. (2018): Mammoths inside the Alps during the last glacial period: radiocarbon constraints from Austria and palaeoenvironmental implications. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 190, 11-19.

Vieten, R., Warken, S., Winter, A., Scholz, D., Miller, T., Spötl, C., Schroeder-Ritzrau, A., Terzer, S. (2018): Monitoring of Cueva Larga, Puerto Rico – a first step to decode speleothem climate records. – in: White, W.B., Herman, J.S., Hermann, E.K. & Rutigliano, M. (eds.), Karst Groundwater Contamination and Public Health, 319-331, Berlin, Springer.

Vieten, R., Warken, S., Winter, A., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Scholz, D. & Spötl, C. (2018): Hurricane impact on seepage water in Larga Cave, Puerto Rico. – Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123, 879-888.

Wolfgring, E., Wagreich, M., Dinarès-Turell, J., Gier, S., Böhm, K., Sames, B., Spötl, C., Popp, F. (2018): The Santonian-Campanian boundary and end of the Long Cretaceous Normal Polarity Chron: Isotope and plankton stratigraphy of a pelagic reference section in the NW Tethys (Austria). - Newsletters on Stratigraphy, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/nos/2018/0392.

Wynn, P.M., Fairchild, I.J., Borsato, A., Spötl, C., Hartland, A., Baker, A., Frisia, S., Baldini, J.U.L. (2018): Sulphate partitioning into calcite: Experimental verification of pH control and application to seasonality in speleothems. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 226, 69-83.