Christoph Spötl

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ID4130869
NOMBREChristoph Spötl
NOMBRESChristoph
APELLIDOSpötl
FIRMASPÖTL C
AFILIACIONESUniversität Innsbruck
ORCID0000-0001-7167-4940
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS25
TOTAL DE CITAS24
TOTAL COMO AUTOR25
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2006
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • The Usage History of the Aqueduct of Nîmes Reconstructed From Carbonate Archives

    Open AccessGül Sürmelihindi, Cees W Passchier et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2026

    Anthropogenic carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts can provide detailed environmental and archaeological information. The Roman aqueduct of Nîmes (France), famed for the Pont du Gard bridge, was built around AD 50 to convey water over 50 km to the city of Nemausus for drinking and bathing. Anthropogenic carbonate deposited along its channel was investigated using a multi‐proxy approach combining stable C, O and Sr isotopes with trace elements to…

  • Speleothems in Utah caves record past dynamics of mountain permafrost

    Open AccessJeffrey S Munroe, Jeffrey Munroe et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2026

    Mountain permafrost is a climatically sensitive but poorly constrained component of the terrestrial cryosphere. We use 108 U-Th dates from speleothems in two limestone caves in the Uinta Mountains of northern Utah, USA, to reconstruct a 600,000 year history of permafrost presence and absence in this alpine setting. Speleothem growth in both caves is confined almost entirely to discrete intervals that align with interglacial conditions of Marine I…

  • Zooarchaeological and isotope study of animal remains from the Late Bronze Age site of Ridala, Saaremaa Island, Estonia

    Open AccessJoanna Religa-Sobczyk, Nina Kowalik et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026Referencias: 27

  • Holocene temperatures follow CO 2 in southeastern Alaska

    Open AccessPaul S Wilcox, Christoph SpötlARTICLEThe Holocene2025Referencias: 28

    Understanding the temperature evolution during the Holocene is crucial for future climate projections. However, a puzzling discrepancy between climate models simulating a warming trend during the second half of the Holocene parallel to the rise in atmospheric CO 2 concentrations and proxy data suggesting cooling during this period – known as the Holocene temperature conundrum – limits our understanding of how climate will evolve in the future. To…

  • The Roman Water Management of Arles as Read in Aqueduct Carbonate Archives

    Open AccessGül Sürmelihindi, Cees W Passchier et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2025

    This article reconstructs the complex history of modifications made to the Roman aqueduct of Arelate (Arles), by studying carbonate incrustations in its channels. These deposits, precipitated by flowing water, have preserved an archive of the aqueduct's life‐cycle in their stratigraphy, fabric and stable isotope composition. Two tributaries, from Caparon and Eygalières, converged in a basin before an arcade bridge, from which a single channel con…

  • Operation and decline of the Barbegal mill complex, the largest industrial complex of antiquity

    Open AccessCees W Passchier, Gül Sürmelihindi et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2024Referencias: 2

    The Roman mill complex of Barbegal in France is the largest preindustrial structure in Europe. Carbonate incrustations that formed from water flowing through basins, over flumes and waterwheels of the mill complex are partly preserved. The largest carbonate fragments are derived from three wooden flumes that once served the wheels of three mills in a train of eight. The deposits formed from the same water as it moved down from mill to mill. The s…

  • Radiocarbon Constraints on Periods of Positive Cave Ice Mass Balance During the Last Millennium, Julian Alps (Nw Slovenia)

    Open AccessTanguy M F Racine, Christoph Spötl et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 45

    Caves containing perennial ice deposits make up a little-known, but emerging part of the cryosphere under increasing scrutiny from the scientific community. M-17, a sag-type ice cave opening at 1879 m asl in the Tolminski Migovec massif of the Julian Alps (NW Slovenia) contains a perennial underground ice deposit whose paleoclimate sensitivity is poorly understood and whose longevity under current climate change is at risk. The past mass balance …

  • Environments at the MIS 3/2 transition in the northern Alps and their foreland

    Open AccessPhilipp Stojakowits, Christoph Mayr et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2021

  • Th dating of flowstone from Ignatievskaya Cave, Russia

    Open AccessY V Dublyansky, N Shirokov et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2021Citada por: 3Referencias: 8

    Paleolithic antiquity of parietal art in Ignatievskaya cave, Southern Ural, is supported by its subject (Late Pleistocene animals) as well as by paleontological and palynological data, and 14 C dates from cultural layers associated with artistic activity (17.8-16.3 cal ka BP; association is established by finds of ochre in these layers). However, three 14 C dates of charcoal motifs yielded younger, Holocene ages (7.4-6.0 cal ka BP). In this study…

  • Carbonates from the ancient world's longest aqueduct

    Open AccessGül Sürmelihindi, Cees W Passchier et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2021Citada por: 2

    The fourth‐ and fifth‐century aqueduct system of Constantinople is, at 426 km, the longest water supply line of the ancient world. Carbonate deposits i659ide an archive of both archaeological developments and palaeo‐environmental conditions during the depositional period. The 246‐km‐long aqueduct line from the fourth century used springs from a small aquifer, whereas a 180‐km‐long fifth‐century extension to the west tapped a larger aquifer. Altho…

  • An interdisciplinary study of a mammoth-bearing Late Pleistocene sediment succession in lower Austria

    Open AccessDaria Carobene, Michael C Meyer et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • Barbegal

    Open AccessGül Sürmelihindi, Cees W Passchier et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2019Referencias: 10

  • Speleothem δ 13 C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly

    Open AccessAlexander Budsky, David Scholz et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 3Referencias: 32

    South-eastern Spain is one of the driest regions in Europe and thus, prone to drought. Terrestrial climate records covering the late Glacial and Holocene from this area are sparse. Here, we present a flowstone record from Cueva Victoria, south-eastern Spain, which covers the late Glacial (15 ka) to the mid-Holocene (7 ka) including the Younger Dryas (YD). Between the onset of the Bølling/Allerød (B/A) and the early Holocene, flowstone δ 18 O valu…

  • Evaluation of the regional vegetation and climate in the Eastern Alps (Austria) during MIS 3–4 based on pollen analysis of the classical Baumkirchen paleolake sequence

    Open AccessSamuel Barrett, Samuel Jonathan Barrett et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2018

    The pre-last glacial maximum paleolake sediments at Baumkirchen, western Austria, are well known in Alpine Quaternary stratigraphy as being the type locality of the Middle to Upper Würmian transition. Their location provides a rare opportunity to investigate the vegetation history of the interior of the Alps during the last glacial cycle. A recent renewed research effort involving new drilling revealed a 250-m-thick lacustrine sequence with an ol…

  • Radiocarbon Constraints on the Age of the World’s Highest-Elevation Cave-Bear Population, Conturines Cave (Dolomites, Northern Italy)

    Open AccessChristoph Spötl, Paula J Reimer et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 40

    We report radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates on bone samples of Ursus ladinicus , a small cave bear species well adapted to a life in the mountains, whose remains were found in Conturines Cave. Located at 2775 m asl in the Dolomites of northern Italy, this cave is by far the highest known cave bear site worldwide. Eleven 14 C dates obtained by the Belfast and Oxford laboratories on samples showing good collagen preservation yielded consistent ages in exce…

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

    Open AccessHai Cheng, R Lawrence Edwards et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • Holocene climate variability in Central Germany and a potential link to the polar North Atlantic

    Open AccessSimon A Mischel, David Scholz et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 12

    Here, we present high-resolution trace element and stable isotope records from three coeval Holocene stalagmites from the Herbstlabyrinth cave system, Central Germany. All stalagmites were precisely dated using MC-ICPMS 230 Th/U-dating. One stalagmite started to grow at 13.62 ± 0.13 ka BP, covering the late Glacial; the other two speleothems started to grow at 11.13 ± 0.08 and 10.26 ± 0.08 ka BP, respectively. The combined record covers the entir…

  • Age, soil-forming processes, and archaeology of the loess deposits at the Apennine margin of the Po plain (northern Italy)

    Open AccessMarco Cremaschi, Mauro Cremaschi et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2015

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

    Open AccessHai Cheng, R Lawrence Edwards et al.ARTICLEEarth and Planetary Science Letters2013

  • Long-term mass balance of perennial firn and ice in an Alpine cave (Austria)

    Open AccessChristoph Spötl, Paula J Reimer et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2013Citada por: 4Referencias: 3

    Hundsalm ice cave located at 1520 m altitude in a karst region of western Austria contains up to 7-m-thick deposits of snow, firn and congelation ice. Wood fragments exposed in the lower parts of an ice and firn wall were radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dated. Although the local stratigraphy is complex, the 19 individual dates – the largest currently available radiocarbon dataset for an Alpine ice cave – allow to place constraints…

  • Comnispa Ii

    Open AccessJens Fohlmeister, Nicole Vollweiler et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2012Citada por: 3Referencias: 4

    We present an update (COMNISPA II) of a precisely dated, high-resolution speleothem δ 18 O record from the Austrian Alps. COMNISPA II consists of five stalagmites from Spannagel Cave, which have comparable δ 18 O values within periods of simultaneous growth and show similar δ 18 O variations on centennial to millennial timescales. This allows combining the five stalagmites to one composite record using a newly developed statistical approach. The …

  • Cuban stalagmite suggests relationship between Caribbean precipitation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation during the past 1.3 ka

    Open AccessClaudia Fensterer, David Scholz et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2012Citada por: 4Referencias: 3

    Here we present the first high-resolution δ 18 O record of a stalagmite from western Cuba. The record reflects precipitation variability in the northwestern Caribbean during the last 1.3 ka and exhibits a correlation to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). This suggests a relationship between Caribbean rainfall intensity and North Atlantic sea-surface temperature (SST) anomalies. A potential mechanism for this relationship may be the stre…

  • U/Th age constraints on the absence of ice in the central Inn Valley (eastern Alps, Austria) during Marine Isotope Stages 5c to 5a

    Open AccessChristoph Spötl, Augusto ManginiARTICLEQuaternary Research2006

    Calcitic flowstones are present in fractures of a Pleistocene breccia near Innsbruck, Austria, and record periods of carbonate precipitation in the unsaturated zone between 101,500 ± 1500 and 70,300 ± 1800 yr, constrained by U-series disequilibrium dates. The occurrence of these speleothems, their low carbon isotopic composition, and the lack of infiltrated siliciclastic material demonstrate that the central Inn valley – which harbored one of the…

  • Holocene Climate Variability in Sicily from a Discontinuous Stalagmite Record and the Mesolithic to Neolithic Transition

    Open AccessSilvia Frisia, Andrea Borsato et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2006

    Fabric and stable isotopic composition of a Holocene stalagmite (CR1) from a cave in northern Sicily record changes in paleorainfall in the early Holocene. High δ 13 C stable isotope values in the calcite deposited from ca. 8500 to ca. 7500 yr ago are interpreted as reflecting periods of high rainfall. The wet phase was interrupted by two periods of multi-century duration characterized by relatively cool and dry winters centered at ca. 8200 and c…

  • The WinGeol Lamination Tool

    Open AccessMichael C Meyer, Robert Faber et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2006Citada por: 2Referencias: 5

    Geological and biological archives showing an annually laminated internal structure are currently top priority in palaeoclimate research, as they are recognized as very high-resolution archives of environmental change. Also, the annual origin of laminations can be validated by absolute age dating or by using instrumental data for the most recent period. Microscopic laminae may span several hundreds to thousands of years and frequently reveal a hi…