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A Study on the Impact of Microplastics on Cave Sediments
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
2024
Mykah Carden,
Patricia N. Kambesis
Summary
Researchers investigated microplastic contamination in cave sediments, finding that these underground geological environments are accumulating microplastic particles despite their isolation from direct anthropogenic activity. Cave sediments serve as unexplored archives of environmental contamination, and their microplastic content demonstrates that pollution has penetrated even the most remote and seemingly pristine geological ecosystems on Earth.
Caves are significant geological and geoheritage features that can contain uniq...