Christoph Spötl

Research interests

Publications

• Collapse of the Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in the lower Yangtze region in response to climate change

  Science Advances · 2021 · 10.1126/sciadv.abi9275

• A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2021 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106911

• Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 10.1073/pnas.2007869117

• Dual clumped isotope thermometry resolves kinetic biases in carbonate formation temperatures

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-020-17501-0

• Reorganization of the North Atlantic Oscillation during early Holocene deglaciation

  Nature Geoscience · 2016 · 10.1038/ngeo2767

• The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18591

• Climate variations of Central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales

  Scientific Reports · 2016 · 10.1038/srep36975

• Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales

  Scientific Reports · 2016 · 10.1038/srep24374

• Palaeoclimate records 60–8 ka in the Austrian and Swiss Alps and their forelands

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2014 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.021

• Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.006

• Monitoring Bunker Cave (NW Germany): A prerequisite to interpret geochemical proxy data of speleothems from this site

  Journal of Hydrology · 2011 · 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.08.068

• The climatic cyclicity in semiarid‐arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2011 · 10.1029/2011gl050202

• NALPS: a precisely dated European climate record 120–60 ka

  Climate of the past · 2011 · 10.5194/cp-7-1247-2011

• Carbon mass-balance modelling and carbon isotope exchange processes in dynamic caves

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2010 · 10.1016/j.gca.2010.10.021

• Palaeoenvironmental significance of carbon- and oxygen-isotope stratigraphy of marine Triassic–Jurassic boundary sections in SW Britain

  Journal of the Geological Society · 2009 · 10.1144/0016-76492007-177

• Evidence for recurrent changes in Lower Triassic oceanic circulation of the Tethys: The δ13C record from marine sections in Iran

  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2007 · 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.11.052

• Cave air control on dripwater geochemistry, Obir Caves (Austria): Implications for speleothem deposition in dynamically ventilated caves

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2004.12.009

• Modification and preservation of environmental signals in speleothems

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.08.003

• Chronology and paleoenvironment of Marine Isotope Stage 3 from two high-elevation speleothems, Austrian Alps

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2005 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.10.006

• Climate variability in the SE Alps of Italy over the past 17 000 years reconstructed from a stalagmite record

  Boreas · 2005 · 10.1080/03009480500231336

• Reconstruction of temperature in the Central Alps during the past 2000 yr from a δ18O stalagmite record

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2005 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.010

• In situ U-series dating by laser-ablation multi-collector ICPMS: new prospects for Quaternary geochronology

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2005 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.07.006

• Continuous‐flow isotope ratio mass spectrometric analysis of carbonate minerals

  Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.1010

• Uranyl Incorporation in Natural Calcite

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2003 · 10.1021/es025962f

• Stalagmite from the Austrian Alps reveals Dansgaard–Oeschger events during isotope stage 3:

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2002 · 10.1016/s0012-821x(02)00837-3

Current projects

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