Caves and their dripstones tell us about the uplift of mountains

Monday, May 2, 2011 - 10:20 in Earth & Climate

In a recent Geology paper geologists from the universities of Innsbruck and Leeds report on ancient cave systems discovered near the summits of the Allgau Mountains that preserved the oldest radiometrically dated dripstones currently known from the European Alps.

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