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January 1988
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The historical term Mondmilch (=calcite moonmilk) is related to the proper type locality, the cave Mondmilchloch from South-Pilatus near Lucerne (Switzerland). Defines Mondmilch sensu stricto (>90% CaCO3) more precisely in order to distinguish mondmilch-like carbonate speleothems (=moonmilk, <90% CaCO3) and other subterranean deposits, eg., sulphates, phosphates and silicates from pure calcite Mondmilch. -from Author
... One is southern France and northern Spain, the other Australia and Papua New Guinea (Bednarik 1984(Bednarik , 1985(Bednarik , 1986(Bednarik , 1990Ballard 1993). At most of the sites of finger flutings, the former, now often 'fossilised' mondmilch (montmilch, moomilk, Bergmilch, etc.; Bates and Jackson 1987;Fischer 1989) bearing markings is of the speleothem type (i.e. reprecipitated;), but states of preservation differ profoundly between different sites, and often even within an individual site. ...
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Dating Australian cave petroglyphs
January 1988
