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flowstone

[′flō‚stōn]
(geology)
Deposits of calcium carbonate that accumulated against the walls of a cave where water flowed on the rock.
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So scientists turned to another method to measure the painting's age - they used flowstones.
Neanderthals: Quite The Artists!
* Cover Styrofoam cones, boxes, or cardboard with papier-mache, and then paint and varnish them to create stalagmites, flowstone, and other deposits.
Have cave, will travel
A further sample, taken in June 2011 from the same flowstone deposit, revealed a minimum date of 14,505 years BP, plus or minus 560 years.
Engraved Welsh Reindeer in South Wales Cave is Britain's Oldest Rock Art
"For some reason, and by complete coincidence, the person who engraved this art over 12,000 years ago did so on a piece of rock where a flowstone later grew over it, which is the only reason we could work out its history."
Cadw to safeguard site of prehistoric pictures; PROTECTION WORK TO START AFTER ATTACK BY VANDALS
Other speleothems include flowstone that looks like a rock river, rounded polished cave pearls, and feathery aragonite.
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Chronological control for the fauna was established based on two independent uranium-series dates on clean carbonate extracted from flowstone at the base of the excavation (Jass, 2007).
Desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) from Pleistocene sediments in Cathedral Cave, White Pine County, Nevada
The Tynebottom mine has produced an interesting suite of nickel and cobalt-containing minerals including erythrite, safflorite, nickel-skullerudite, violarite, rammelsbergite, annabergite, and some very attractive specimens of drusy calcite and "flowstone" colored pink to deep magenta by micro-inclusions of erythrite, or blue by copper salts.
Alston Moor
The cave decorations consist of stalactites, stalagmites, pillars, drapery, rimstone pools, flowstone, helictites, soda straws, and other unusual crystal formations.
Appraising interesting holes in the ground
"Increasing number of visitors to the site meant that the impact on the flowstone was large and parts of it were damaged.
Turkey benefitting from credit crunch
The concert is sponsored by Flowstone, a monthly publication that chronicles sustainable living techniques.
BRIEFLY
(1995): Paleoclimate implications of mass spectrometric dating of a British flowstone. Geology, 23: 309-312.
Cronologia de la Terminacion II y del Ultimo Periodo Interglacial en el norte de Espana a partir de los registros de isotopos estables de estalagmitas procedentes de la Cueva del Cobre (Palencia)
An archaeological study on the extraction of flowstone from caves and rockshelters for producing stone money in western Micronesia.
The maritime transport of prehistoric megaliths in Micronesia

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