Author: Milo Barham, Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University

Almost one-sixth of Earth’s land surface is covered in otherworldly landscapes with a name that may also be unfamiliar: karst. These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedrock slowly sculpted by water over thousands of years. Karst landscapes are beautiful and ecologically important. They also represent a record of Earth’s past temperature and moisture levels. However, it can be quite challenging to figure out exactly when karst landscapes formed. In our new work published today in Science Advances, we show a new way to find the age of these enigmatic landscapes,…