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Research article
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Research article |
| 31 May 2018
| 31 May 2018
The triple oxygen isotope composition of phytoliths as a proxy of continental atmospheric humidity: insights from climate chamber and climate transect calibrations
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Amarelle Landais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de
l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL/CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Christine Vallet-Coulomb
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Clément Piel
Ecotron Européen de Montpellier, UPS 3248, Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Campus Baillarguet,
Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
Sébastien Devidal
Ecotron Européen de Montpellier, UPS 3248, Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Campus Baillarguet,
Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
Sandrine Pauchet
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Corinne Sonzogni
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Martine Couapel
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Marine Pasturel
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Pauline Cornuault
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Jingming Xin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de
l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL/CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Jean-Charles Mazur
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Frédéric Prié
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de
l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL/CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Ilhem Bentaleb
ISEM, Université de Montpellier,
CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
Elizabeth Webb
Department of Earth Sciences,
The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Françoise Chalié
CEREGE UM34, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Aix en
Provence, France
Jacques Roy
Ecotron Européen de Montpellier, UPS 3248, Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Campus Baillarguet,
Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
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There is a lack of proxies suitable for reconstructing, in a quantitative way, past changes in continental atmospheric humidity, which is a key climate parameter. Here, we demonstrate through climate chamber and climate transect calibrations that the triple oxygen isotope composition of phytoliths offers a potential for reconstructing changes in relative humidity.
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