Paleo Data Search

Product Information
If you would like to help us understand our user community better, please fill out this short Paleoclimatology User Survey
paleo logo

PaST Thesaurus Navigator

Use this page to navigate the Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) thesaurus and discover information about terms such as definitions, relations, and vocabulary hierarchies.


cavity ring-down spectroscopy
a type of laser spectroscopy in which the sample is placed inside a highly reflective laser cavity and an effect induced by the absorption of laser light is detected. The decay time for light exiting the cavity is determined as a function of pulsed laser wavelength (Credit: Chemical Methods Ontology).
ROOT > method > laboratory method > spectroscopy > laser spectroscopy > cavity ring-down spectroscopy
Measured Variable Terms
This page is used for exploring the WDS-Paleo controlled vocabulary for measured variables (PaST Thesaurus). A term's title and description will appear here. Terms marked as 'metaterm' are not searchable in the Variables Advanced Search, but serve to organize terms into a hierarchy.