3.3. Sedimentation Rate
Sedimentation rate of the sediment from this study in the Za Hajovnou
cave is not known. We compared the thickness of transition section of
our study (cm) with the thickness of transition section of other studies
(cm) and estimated the sedimentation rate. Let n be the ratio
between the two data sets which shows how thick or thin the transition
section of 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 transition section thickness of
published study (in cm), srp is sedimentation rate of 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 cm/kyr – 1.0 cm/kyr) Sedimentation rate
estimates are shown in Table 2 compared with other studies.
Table 2: Sedimentation rate estimations for Za Hajovnou from
previous studies.
*: Sedimentation rate estimation for Za Hajovnou.