Captions to Climate and Culture

Figure 1: Schematic cross-section of a limestone cave with speleothems (drip-stones) of different types.

Figure 2: Summary of several different tree-ring chronologies from various parts of the northern hemisphere (Mongolia, Alaska, Canada, Sweden, and eastern, western and central Siberia). (After Briffa, 2000)
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Figure 3: Oxygen isotope data from a Greenland ice-core. (Diagram created by Karlén, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, with "GISP-2"-data from The Greenland Summit Ice Cores CD-ROM. 1997.)
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Figure 4: Oxygen isotope data from two South African stalagmites (After Holmgren et al., 1999)
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Figure 5: Scanning-picture of the lower part of a longitudinally cut stalagmite from South Africa.
  


© The individual authors 2002.
CD-ROM compiled by Johan Arvidsson.