SPELEOTHEMS

Cave of Chauvet, France

44.387540N, 4.416550E, alt=248m

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Cave of Chauvet

Chauvet Cave, a world heritage site in the Ardeche region is among the most beautifull prehistoric cave with numerous drawings dated between 38ka and 30 ka BP. Apart from the massive stalagmite floor, which formed between 124,000- and 100,000-years BP, most speleothems studied in Chauvet Cave developed during the last deglaciation and the Holocene periods. Monitoring in the Chauvet Cave started soon after its discovery in 1999 and produced among the most continuous and the longest time series of cave monitoring (T, pCO2, drip rates and water stable isotopes).

Name Sampling site Sample type Mineral Height Begin age End age Details
Chau-stm1 Well of entrea stalagmite Calcite 35 cm 1450 ± 450 (Yr / a BP) 4500 ± 40 (Yr / a BP)
Chau-stm2 No name stalagmite Calcite 14.5 cm 8880 ± 223 (Yr / a BP) 13945 ± 85 (Yr / a BP)
Chau_stm3 Galerie du Mégacéros stalagmite Calcite 14 cm 14450 ± 1000 (Yr / a BP) 18200 ± 1000 (Yr / a BP)
Chau-stm4 Galerie des croisillons stalagmite Calcite 32.9 cm 255 ± 400 (Yr / a BP) 4700 ± 700 (Yr / a BP)
Chau-stm5 Cactus stalagmite Calcite 27.5 cm 1750 ± 145 (Yr / a BP) 11175 ± 364 (Yr / a BP)
Chau-stm6 Galerie des croisillons stalagmite Calcite 67 cm 11445 ± 152 (Yr / a BP) 32822 ± 622 (Yr / a BP)
Chau-stm7 unknown stalagmite Calcite 5 cm 305 ± 11 (Yr / a BP) 5747 ± 92 (Yr / a BP)
Chau-stm8 unknown stalagmite Calcite 19.25 cm 8648 ± 155 (Yr / a BP) 11500 ± 172 (Yr / a BP)
Chau-stm10 Atelier stalagmite Calcite 15 cm no data no data
Chau-stm11 Bernard Gely stalagmite Calcite 3 cm 10520 ± 45 (Yr / a BP) 29710 ± 210 (Yr / a BP)
Chau-stmx Salle Hillaire flowstone Abernathyite 22 m no data no data
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Name Type Description Sampling site Number of sensors Details
Name Station name Type of station Type of prelevement Prelevement date Description Prelevement owner Details
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Genty-2004-CRAS-Chauvet.pdf application/pdf
Genty-2005-BSPF.pdf application/pdf
Genty-2006-QSR.pdf application/pdf
Genty-2006-QSR-Science-Editor-Choice.pdf application/pdf
Genty-2014-GCA.pdf application/pdf
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