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. ...
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,
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. ...
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 aragonite is 1. a relatively rare form of calcium carbonate (caco3), chemically identical to the more common calcite but of orthorhombic crystal form. its pure form is metastable in the cave environment, where calcite forms preferentially. it is relatively abundant in some caves due to the presence of impurities, notably strontium, that distort the carbonate lattice and favor aragonite growth. the commonest form seen in caves as small radiating crystals (anthodites) that develop in humid caves, where surfaces are covered by a moisture film but not by flowing water. 2. a mineral composed of calcium carbonate, caco3, like calcite but differing in crystal form [10]. 3. an unstable orthorhombic carbonate mineral, caco3 [16].?
Karst session at the GSA Annual Meeting: Karst Environments
Dates: From 31 Oct, 2010 till 03 Nov, 2010
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
One of the karst-related topical sessions within the program of the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in Denver will be:
Topical Session T52: "Karst Environments: Problems, Management, Human Impact, and Environmental Sustainability?
Conveners:
Robert Brinkmann (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA)
Mario Parise (National Research Council of Italy ? IRPI)
THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION is 10 August 2010
A selection of papers coming from the session will be considered (after peer review) for publication in a special issue of Journal of Cave and Karst Studies. More information on the matter will be given during the GSA Meeting.
For further information about the session please, contact:
Mario Parise
CNR-IRPI,
Via Amendola 122-I
70125 Bari
Italy
tel. +39-080-5929587
fax +39-080-5929611
e-mail: m.parise@ba.irpi.cnr.it