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Glacier advances during the last 400 ka as evidenced in St. Beatus Caves (BE, Switzerland)

Häuselmann, Philipp ; Lauritzen, Stein-Erik ; Jeannin, Pierre-Yves ; Monbaron, Michel

In: Quaternary International, 2008, vol. 189, no. 1, p. 173-189

While stalagmites within caves are commonly used to obtain information about past climate change, little attention has so far been given to the cave, its morphology, and many other types of deposits contained in it. The discontinuous nature of cave sediments and the possibility that caves are re-shaped by more recent water circulations has discouraged many researchers, despite the fact that it is...