Holocene climatic variation recorded in a speleothem from McFail's Cave, New York

A speleothem collected from McFail's Cave, central New York, was analyzed in order to produce a high resolution paleoclimatic record for this region. The record is dated by Th/U ICP Mass Spectrometry. Variation in growth rates and δ¹⁸O values for the period 0 to 7.6 ka revealed three distinct intervals: maximum warmth and wettest from 7.6 to 7.0 ka; a slow steady cooling from 7.0 to 2.5 ka; and fairly constant temperatures for the last few …