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Deciphering clues to prehistoric climate changes locked in cave deposits
2015-05-24 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: When the conversation turns to the weather and the climate, most people's thoughts naturally drift upward toward the clouds, but Jessica Oster's sink down into the subterranean world of stalactites and stalagmites. That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate. It...
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Cave deposits record prehistoric climate
2015-05-24 19:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbin: By studying mineral cave deposits known as speleothems, experts from Vanderbilt University, the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California, and elsewhere are learning more about what prehistoric climate was like and how it changed over the years. The research team, led by Vanderbilt assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences Jessica Oster, is analyzing the past five decades of growth of a stalagmite located in the Mawmluh Cave in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, a region...
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The Most Gorgeous Cave Home You've Ever Seen
2015-03-31 04:05:35| Apparel - Topix.net
Ra Paulette, a New Mexico-based artist and subject of the 2014 Oscar-nominated short documentary CaveDigger, has carved out sweeping halls and cathedral columns underground for years using a pick, wheelbarrow, and only his dog for company. Many of the caves are on private property, while others on public lands remain unmarked, unknown and uninhabited - a happy surprise for hikers to stumble upon.
The Roastery of Cave Creek: Small-Town Hospitality On The Fringes of a Big City
2015-03-16 15:00:59| Agriculture - Topix.net
We're sitting at The Roastery of Cave Creek . Owner David Anderson came out to give us a tour of his facility, despite having had knee surgery just a few days ago.
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Melting Cave Ice Is Taking Ancient Climate Data with It
2014-10-28 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: On a recent visit to Crystal Ice Cave in Idaho, climate and cave researchers had to wade through frigid, knee-deep water to reach the ice formations that give the cave its name. Cavers are good-humored about the hardships of underground exploration, but this water was chilling for more than one reason: it was carrying away some of the very clues they had come to study. Ice is an invaluable source of information about the earth's past. Pollen trapped in ice from polar ice caps and mountaintop glaciers...