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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2017.38.1.64

The Petrographic Investigation of Soda Straws in Baeg-nyong Cave, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea  

Cho, Jae-nam (Department of Geology, Kangwon National University)
Jo, Kyoung-nam (Department of Geology, Kangwon National University)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.38, no.1, 2017 , pp. 64-79 More about this Journal
Abstract
We have reported the petrographic properties on the soda straw primarily based on the field measurements and discussed the causes of their traits. 156 soda straws in district B of the Baeg-nyong Cave nominated with the natural monument No. 260 have been investigated to estimate physical, sedimentological and textural characteristics. The soda straws have an average length of 3.05 cm with a standard deviation of 1.7 cm and a mean diameter of 6.0 mm. This result shows that the average diameter of the soda straws measured in this study is thicker than previous reports by 20%. Although the drip rates of cave water from 85.3% of all the soda straws are exceedingly lower than 1 drop per 10 minutes, almost all soda straws have a dripping water. We firstly report growth lamina in the Korean soda straw from 85.3% of all samples, and this textural dominance indicates that the growth lamina are one of the common features of the soda straws at least in the study area. Secondary precipitations inside the soda straw were identified from 68.6%. Notably, the strong inverse correlation between growth lamina and secondary precipitates was represented from 70.5% of all samples. This finding might be explained by the seasonality of cave drip water supplied into the soda straws or the increased opacity caused by secondary precipitates. Based on petrograhic characteristics, the soda straws in the study area can be classified into normal and erratic types. Hopefully our results on the soda straws in Baeg-nyong Cave would provide a basis for the descriptions of soda straws from other caves and paleoclimatic applications.
Keywords
soda straw; speleothem; Baeg-nyong Cave; growth lamina; paleoclimatic proxy;
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