Fire clues in cave dripwater

Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 09:51 in Earth & Climate

When mineral-rich water drips from a cave's ceiling over centuries and millennia, it forms rocky cones that hold clues to the Earth's past climate. Now, researchers in Australia and the UK have found that these structures can also help trace past wildfires that burned above the cave.

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