Australia: Using cave formations to investigate ancient wildfires
From sediment cores to speleothems, environmental archives are helping us to understand the history of wildfires.
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Using Cave Formations to Investigate Ancient Wildfires
From sediment cores to speleothems, environmental archives are helping us to understand the history of wildfires.
New South Wales Micheline Campbell Eliza Mcdonough Andy Baker Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation
Source: eos.org
"Past fires and post-fire impacts reconstructed from a southwest Austra" by Liza K. McDonough, Pauline C. Treble et al.
Speleothem records of past environmental change provide an important opportunity to explore fire frequency and intensity in the past, and the antecedent climatic conditions leading to fire events. Here, fire sensitive geochemical signals in a stalagmite from Yonderup Cave, a shallow cave in Western Australia, are compared to well-documented wildfire events that occurred in recent decades. The results are extended to identify wildfires during the growth interval of the speleothem (1760 CE–2005 ...
Source: uow.edu.au
Stalagmite Reveals More Intense Bushfires in Australia Since 1890's
A stalagmite from a Western Australian (WA) cave has revealed that prior to European settlement in the state, ...
New South Wales Steve Milne Eliza Mcdonough University Of New South Wales University Of Melbourne Indigenous Knowledge Institute
Source: theepochtimes.com
Plato's Cave: Stalagmites reveal Australia's pre-colonial bushfire history
A stalagmite in Western Australia has revealed regular, low-intensity fires before European arrival and infrequent, high-intensity fires afterwards.
Western Australia Yanchep National Park Andy Baker Whadjuk Noongar Cosmochimica Acta Eliza Mcdonough
Source: unsw.edu.au