The new ages are based on the radioactive decay of the rare isotopes aluminum-26 and beryllium-10 in the mineral quartz ... dating calcite flowstone deposits found within the cave fill, but ...

Granger works with cosmogenic nuclides, “very rare radioactive particles that are produced inside mineral ... calcite flowstone. When water flows on cave walls or floors, it can deposit ...

The reindeer was engraved over a mineral deposit known as a ... with Uranium-series dating of flowstone that covers engraved figures within Church Hole Cave at Creswell along the Nottinghamshire ...

Until the current study, cave pearls were neither found in an archaeological context nor used for archaeological research,” ...

Then, long buried under later deposits ... decorated cave I had ever seen. Massive stalactites in pink and orange pastels flowed into mounds of white rippled flowstone. Calcite cave pearls ...

The “Cradle of Humankind” is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa that comprises a variety of fossil-bearing cave deposits, including at Sterkfontein ... the bones to estimate their age or ...

The entire cave system is a geological time capsule: Mineral deposits reveal millennia of ... The second one leads me to a ledge of glossy flowstone formed by thin sheets of minerals deposited ...

Mineral calcite deposits form the physical ... she found a study on a single flowstone — a speleothem formed by sheets of constantly flowing water — from a cave in northeastern Greenland.

An alternate method is flowstone dating. When water runs down the walls of a cave, seeping into the limestone, a calcite flowstone forms. A flowstone contains uranium, which will decay at a ...