GB Cave

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name =GB Cave
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location =Shipham
depth =convert|134|m|ft|abbr=on
length =convert|1.95|km|ft|abbr=on
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discovery =1939
geology =Limestone
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GB Cave (gbmapping|ST47595623) is a cave near Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave is located within the GB Gruffy nature reserve and is close to the much smaller Charterhouse Cave. [cite web | title=GB Gruffy | work=Wildlife Trusts Somerset |url=http://www.somersetwildlife.org/reserve_65.php | accessdate=2007-05-22]

GB Cave is convert|1.95|km|ft|abbr=on in length and reaches a depth of convert|134|m|ft|abbr=on. [cite web | title=Mendip | work=UK and Ireland Cave Lengths and Depths |url=http://www.ukcaves.co.uk/tables.php?region=2&length_depth=length | accessdate=2007-01-15] It is named after Francis Goddard and Charles Barker who first discovered it in 1939. [cite book |last=Johnson |first=Peter |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The History of Mendip Caving |year=1967 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbott |ASIN=B0000CNIE0 ] GB Cave is remarkable for the Gorge, a passage large enough to contain several double-decker buses, and the main chamber which is the largest cavern amongst the Caves of the Mendip Hills.

The trace elements Magnesium, Strontium and Barium have been found by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) from three Holocene speleothems taken from Great Chamber in GB Cave. [cite journal
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author = Roberts M. S., Smart P. L., Hawkesworth C. J., Perkins W. T. and Pearce N. J. G.
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year = 1999
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title = Trace element variations in coeval Holocene speleothems from GB Cave, southwest England
journal = The Holocene
volume = 9
issue = 6
pages = 707–713
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url = http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1556261
language = English
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References

See also

* Caves of the Mendip Hills