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 ...

Along the way, I encounter fascinating flowstone formations, rimstone pools, and even a surprise cave crawfish! Will I make it through, or will the cold and rising water force me to turn back?

A mere 10 minutes into the cave, we’d arrived at Cheve’s first ... from swaths of calcium carbonate flowstone to delicate crystalline bushes. People at Cheve give different reasons for their ...

In South Africa—especially in a cave—the scientists don't have that luxury. They typically use other animal fossils found around the bones to estimate their age or calcite flowstone deposited ...

Previous dating of Member 4 has been based on dating calcite flowstone deposits found within the cave fill, but careful observations show that the flowstone is actually younger than the cave fill ...

One of the world's largest cave systems, Wind Cave invites you to take in the fragile frostwork, smooth flowstone and honeycomb-like boxwork (the cave's most famous feature) that line the over 160 ...

Calthemites grow both on and under these structures in forms that mimic natural cave speleothems like stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, and so on. They are often the result of an hyperalkalinic ...

In South Africa – especially in a cave – the scientists don’t have that luxury. They typically use other animal fossils found around the bones to estimate their age or calcite flowstone deposited in ...