Assessing the paleoenvironmental potential of Pliocene to Holocene tufa deposits along the Ghaap Plateau escarpment (South Africa) using stable isotopes

Taylor Louise Doran; Andy IR Herries; Philip J Hopley; Hank Sombroek; John Hellstrom; Ed Hodge; Brian F Kuhn

Journal article

Assessing the paleoenvironmental potential of Pliocene to Holocene tufa deposits along the Ghaap Plateau escarpment (South Africa) using stable isotopes

Taylor Louise Doran, Andy IR Herries, Philip J Hopley, Hank Sombroek, John Hellstrom, Ed Hodge, Brian F Kuhn

Quaternary Research | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2015.04.008

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John Hellstrom Author Earth Sciences

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship grant (FT120100399) and Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) awards (07/068, 08/031, 08/032) to AIRH. Fieldwork and stable isotope analysis was supported by National Geographic Grants (#8774-10 and #3212) awarded to PJH. We would like to thank Curtis Marean, an anonymous reviewer, and Julian Andrews, who was especially helpful with his time and expertise, for their constructive comments and suggestions on this paper.