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Landscape evolution

Speleothems are used in many ways to provide constraints on landscape evolution. Dating of broken or tilted speleothems can provides ages for past seismic events e.g.

Becker, A., Davenport, C.A., Eichenberger, U., Gilli, E., Jeannin, P-Y., Lacave, C (2006) Speleosiesmology: a critical perspective. Journal of Seismology 10, 371-388.

Rajendran, C.P., Sanwai, J., Morell, K.D., Sandiford, M., Kotlia, B.S., Hellstrom, J., Rajendran, K. (2016) Stalagmite growth perturbations from the Kumaun Himalaya as potential earthquake recorders. Journal of Seismology 20, 579-594.

Similarly speleothem ages can provide constraints on rates of river incision, uplift, or continental aridification e.g.

Columbu, A., De Waele, J., Forti, P., Montagna, P., Picotti, V., Pons-Branchu, E., Hellstrom, J., Bajo, P., Drysdale, R. (2015) Gypsum caves as indicators of climate-driven river incision and aggradation in a rapidly uplifting region. Geology 43, 539-542

Cohen, T.J., Nanson, G.C., Jansen, J.D., Jones, B.G., Jacobs, Z., Treble, P., Price, D.M., May, J-H., Smith, A.M., Ayliffe, L.K. & Hellstrom, J.C. (2011) Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia’s megalakes. Geology 39, 167-170.

Dertnig, F., Stüwe, K., Woodhead, J., Stuart, F.M., Spötl, C. (2017) Constraints on the Miocene landscape evolution of the Eastern Alps from the Kalkspitze region, Niedere Tauern (Austrai) Geomorphology, 299-24-38.

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