River flooding is among the most destructive of natural hazards globally, causing
widespread loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic deprivation. Societies are …

Over the last two decades, speleothems have become widely utilized records of past
environmental variability, typically through their stable isotopic and trace elemental …

Despite the paleoclimatic relevance of primary calcite to aragonite transitions in stalagmites,
the relative role of fluid Mg/Ca ratio, supersaturation and CO 3 2− concentration in …

Alpine caves have attracted considerable geomorphological, paleoenvironmental and
hydrogeological interest since climate, glaciations, relief uplift, fluvial incision and karst …

Widespread destructive flooding is a common phenomenon along the Lower Mississippi
River, and river managers have long sought to understand the temporal variability and …

Three stalagmites, which grew in the high altitude (∼ 1800 m asl) Piani Eterni karst system
(northern Italy), represent the longest speleothem palaeoclimate-environmental record from …

Flooding events are major natural hazards that present significant risk to communities
worldwide. Calculations of flood recurrence rate through time are important tools for …

In this study, the chemical composition of calcite crystals and pore-filling sediments in a
stalagmite from Küpeli Cave was investigated for the first time using the electron probe …

We test the capabilities of in situ Raman spectroscopy for non-destructive analysis of
degradation processes in invaluable masterpieces, as well as for the characterization of …

Interactions between bat guano and speleothems were studied in caves of Slovakia
(Domica, Drienovská, and Jasovská caves) and Poland (Nietoperzowa Cave). This …