A dry, dusty cave with stalagmite (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

A dry, dusty cave with stalagmite

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Photo of a (currently) dry, dusty cave south of the Atlas mountains. In the past water was flowing down this large stalagmite formation. We date tiny pieces of stalagmite (~0.25g) to establish when the cave was wet in the past.

Credit: Ben Lovett.

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Ben Lovett

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