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Speleology in Kazakhstan

Shakalov on 04 Jul, 2018
Hello everyone!   I pleased to invite you to the official site of Central Asian Karstic-Speleological commission ("Kaspeko")   There, we regularly publish reports about our expeditions, articles and reports on speleotopics, lecture course for instructors, photos etc. ...

Speleology in Kazakhstan

Shakalov on 04 Jul, 2018
Hello everyone!   I pleased to invite you to the official site of Central Asian Karstic-Speleological commission ("Kaspeko")   There, we regularly publish reports about our expeditions, articles and reports on speleotopics, lecture course for instructors, photos etc. ...

Speleology in Kazakhstan

Shakalov on 11 Jul, 2012
Hello everyone!   I pleased to invite you to the official site of Central Asian Karstic-Speleological commission ("Kaspeko")   There, we regularly publish reports about our expeditions, articles and reports on speleotopics, lecture course for instructors, photos etc. ...

New publications on hypogene speleogenesis

Klimchouk on 26 Mar, 2012
Dear Colleagues, This is to draw your attention to several recent publications added to KarstBase, relevant to hypogenic karst/speleogenesis: Corrosion of limestone tablets in sulfidic ground-water: measurements and speleogenetic implications Galdenzi,

The deepest terrestrial animal

Klimchouk on 23 Feb, 2012
A recent publication of Spanish researchers describes the biology of Krubera Cave, including the deepest terrestrial animal ever found: Jordana, Rafael; Baquero, Enrique; Reboleira, Sofía and Sendra, Alberto. ...

Caves - landscapes without light

akop on 05 Feb, 2012
Exhibition dedicated to caves is taking place in the Vienna Natural History Museum   The exhibition at the Natural History Museum presents the surprising variety of caves and cave formations such as stalactites and various crystals. ...

Did you know?

That fluorapatite is a cave mineral - ca5(po4)3f [11].?

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MS Geological Engineering John Lyons-Baral (United States)
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Address: Tucson, AZ
Website: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-lyons-baral/32/494/a37
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Specialization: Geological Engineering
Instrumentation: Terrestrial LiDAR, accelerometers
Geoactivity: Working on MS thesis for Coronado Cave and Kartchner Caverns, Arizona
Interests: Use of terrestrial LiDAR (TLS) for cave mapping, determination of geologic structure, rock mass characterization and temporal change detection for deformation and erosion/deposition; use of accelerometers for vibrational analysis of cave geologic structures to determine current stability; breakdown processes and time dependent cave evolution.
Member of Speleogenesis.info since 2012-01-01