HabitatMech

speleothem

ENVO:00000327 ·resolve ·TERRESTRIAL ·EXACT REVIEWED

A secondary mineral deposit formed in caves, most commonly calcite. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat

Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Environmental > Terrestrial > Deep subsurface > Cave > Speleothems	1	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

• mineral deposit ENVO:01000255
• Cave habitatmech:GOLD.46abb9a153

Also called

• Speleothems — GOLD

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

1. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:00000327 'speleothem' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the ENVO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Deep subsurface > Cave > Speleothems (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.c9e3601950)

Provenance

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