Stalagmites: from Science Application to Museumization

Abstract The concept of geoheritage is related to places geological interest, generally aesthetic, cultural, socio-economic and/or scientific value. Many geosites are karstic nature, because their intrinsic beauty, singularity and high geodiversity. Caves among the most visited economically exploited landforms. They constitute as a whole, with scenic landscapes, hydrogeological importance presence bewildering natural rock mineral formations including stalactites, stalagmites, flowstones many other bizarre speleothem shapes. In some cases, single speleothem, palaeoclimate record it contains, can be on its own extraordinary science. Once studied, these samples often stored in research institution collections, rarely accessible wide public. this paper, we report museumization stalagmite that has delivered unique exceptionally long glacial climate from southern Italy, shedding light causes led Neanderthal contraction Modern Human expansion mild Mediterranean between 45 42 thousands years ago. proposed aims demonstrate potential speleothems, after application, terms educational tourist resources. This approach allows highlight karst cave public, promoting conservation valorisation studied cave-material.