3.4. Sedimentation Rate Estimation
The sedimentation rate of the sediment from this study in the Za
Hajovnou cave is not known. We compared the thickness of the transition
section of our study (cm) with the thickness of the transition section
of other studies (cm) and estimated the sedimentation rate. Let nbe the ratio between the two data sets which shows how thick or thin the
transition section of the previous study compared to our study (Equation
1.1, 1.2). This, we can estimate the sedimentation rate of Za Hajovnou
(Equation 1.2). In equations, tso is the transition section
thickness from our study (in cm), tsp is the transition section
thickness of the published study (in cm), srp is the
sedimentation rate of the published study (in cm/kyr), sro is
sedimentation rate of our study (in cm/kyr).
Equations;
\begin{equation}
\text{tso\ }\left(\text{cm}\right)\ x\ n\ =\ tsp\ \left(\text{cm}\right)\text{\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ }\ \left(1.1\right)\nonumber \\
\end{equation}\begin{equation}
\text{srp\ }(cm/kyr)/\ n=sro\ (cm/kyr)\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (1.2)\nonumber \\
\end{equation}Then, Za Hajovnou sedimentation rate ranges between 0.07-1.40 cm/kyr.
Dropping the highest (1.41 cm/kyr) and lowest (0.066 cm/kyr) values
gives rate between 0.2-1.0 cm/kyr. Thus, the average sedimentation rate
is 0.6 cm/kyr. Sedimentation rate estimates compared with other studies
are shown in Table 2.
Table 2. Sedimentation rate estimations for Za Hajovnou from
the previous studies.
*: Sedimentation rate estimation for Za Hajovnou.