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Science 4 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5787, pp. 620 - 622
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128980
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Perspectives

CLIMATE:
Caving In to New Chronologies

Gideon M. Henderson

Speleothems formed in caves, such as stalagmites, can be dated precisely and are increasingly providing detailed and accurate records of past climates.

The author is in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK. E-mail: gideonh{at}earth.ox.ac.uk

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