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.