Abstract The so-called “Gran Dolina site”(Atapuerca mountain range, N Spain) is a karstic
cavity filled by sediments during the Pleistocene, some of which contain a rich ensemble of …

Human exposure to water contaminated with faeces is a leading cause of worldwide ill-
health. Contaminated water can be transmitted rapidly in karst terrain as a result of the …

Karst systems are hierarchically spatially organized three-dimensional (3D) networks of
conduits behaving as drains for groundwater flow. Recently, geostatistical approaches …

Abstract The Chauvet cave (UNESCO World Heritage site, France) is located in the Ardèche
Gorge, a unique physical and cultural landscape. Its setting within the gorge—overlooking a …

Cosmogenic burial dating based on measurements of the 26 Al/10 Be ratio is a well-
established geochronological method that contributed to significant progress in several …

Three stalagmites, which grew in the high altitude (∼ 1800 m asl) Piani Eterni karst system
(northern Italy), represent the longest speleothem palaeoclimate-environmental record from …

This case study from the renowned Demänová Cave System in the Carpathians of Slovakia
demonstrates that the conventional methods of fluvial sedimentology, combined with an …

The middle Rhône valley, located at the southeastern margins of the Massif Central in
France, produced a large number of Middle Palaeolithic sites, most of which dated to the …

Abstract The trans-boundary Slovak-Hungarian Domica–Baradla cave system (Slovak and
Aggtelek karsts),> 26 km in length, consists of evolution levels that have been formed in …

Karst systems can control the amount of water flowing on the surface and thus the fluvial
erosional efficiency. Here, we used the ages of speleothems from the active cave system to …