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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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