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 karstification is 1. the processes of solution and infiltration by water, mainly chemical but also mechanical, whereby the surface features and subterranean drainage network of a karstland are developed to form a karst topography, including such surface features as dolines, karren, and mogotes and such subsurface features as caves and shafts. an area currently or formerly undergoing karstification, and thus characterized by karst landforms, is said to be karstified [19]. 2. the process by which karst is formed. the term has been given a wide range of meaning, from almost a synonym or corrosion of soluble rocks by water to a term comprising all processes responsible for the development of karst features including, besides corrosion, such phenomena as mechanical erosion, jointing, and faulting [20]. synonyms: (french.) karstification; (german.) verkarstung; (greek.) apokarstosis; (italian.) carsificazione; (russian.) karstoobrazovanie; (spanish.) karstificacion; (turkish.) karstlasma; (yugoslavian.) okrsavanje, zakrasevanje, karstifikacija.?
The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers will be hosting a “Workshop on Dead Sea Sinkholes” in Amman Jordan, from 23-25 September 2012. Six interesting sessions are planned including hydrogeology, geochemistry, geophysics, and engineering.