Hidden Earth 2019
Leopards, speleothem mines and bureaucracy: caving in South Africa
30 minute Lecture|Jo White
Abstract
In September 2019 a small group from Birkbeck University went to South Africa in the hope of collecting some speleothem samples to be used for palaeoclimate research. This talk describes the caves we visited and what we found there.
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