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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 tectonic cave is a cave formed by some form of ground movement. the most common is due to landsliding in a jointed rock, leaving an open fissure cave parallel to the line of the hillside along the back of the slipped block. tectonic caves can form in any rock, as they do not depend on dissolution. well known examples are the windypit fissures of north-east yorkshire, england some of which are hundreds of meters long and up to 60m deep [9].?

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Featured articles from Cave & Karst Science Journals
Characterization of minothems at Libiola (NW Italy): morphological, mineralogical, and geochemical study, Carbone Cristina; Dinelli Enrico; De Waele Jo
Chemistry and Karst, White, William B.
Engineering challenges in Karst, Stevanović, Zoran; Milanović, Petar
The karst paradigm: changes, trends and perspectives, Klimchouk, Alexander
Long-term erosion rate measurements in gypsum caves of Sorbas (SE Spain) by the Micro-Erosion Meter method, Sanna, Laura; De Waele, Jo; Calaforra, José Maria; Forti, Paolo
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Featured articles from other Geoscience Journals
Geochemical and mineralogical fingerprints to distinguish the exploited ferruginous mineralisations of Grotta della Monaca (Calabria, Italy), Dimuccio, L.A.; Rodrigues, N.; Larocca, F.; Pratas, J.; Amado, A.M.; Batista de Carvalho, L.A.
Karst processes and landforms, De Waele, J.
Karst environment, Culver D.C.
Mushroom Speleothems: Stromatolites That Formed in the Absence of Phototrophs, Bontognali, Tomaso R.R.; D’Angeli Ilenia M.; Tisato, Nicola; Vasconcelos, Crisogono; Bernasconi, Stefano M.; Gonzales, Esteban R. G.; De Waele, Jo
Calculating flux to predict future cave radon concentrations, Rowberry, Matt; Marti, Xavi; Frontera, Carlos; Van De Wiel, Marco; Briestensky, Milos
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Speleogenesis E-Books Collection

Speleogenesis E-Books Collection is a gateway to electronic versions of monographs, conference proceedings, open file reports and doctoral theses on karst hydrogeology and speleogenesis, that original publishers agreed to make freely accessible via this site.

Publications included in the collection are also referenced in the KarstBase bibliography system.

If you want to include an item to the Speleogenesis Ebooks Collection, please, submit a detailed bibliographic description (including abstract), a full-text PDF file and a permission for non-commercial free distribution, or a stable link to an original place from which a PDF can be downloaded.

Submissions should be sent to klim[at]speleogenesis.info

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Latest Ebooks

Mádl-Szőnyi, J., Erőss, A., Mindszenty, A., Tóth, A.(Eds.) (2013)
International Symposium on Hierarchical Flow Systems in Karst Regions
, Budapest, 1-202
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Stefaniak, Krzysztof; Tyc, Andrzej; Socha, Paweł(Eds.) (2009)
Karst of the Czestochowa Upland and of the Eastern Sudetes : palaeoenvironments and protection
University of Silesia, Sosnowiec - Wrocław, 1-535
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Andreychouk V., Dublyansky Y., Yezhov Y., and Lysenin G. (2009)
Karst in Earth's Crust: distribution and the main types
University of Silesia - Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and Karstology, Sosnowiec - Simferopol, 1-72
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Bailly-Comte, Vincent (2008)
Interactions hydrodynamiques surface/souterrain en milieu karstique [Surface water/Groundwater hydrodynamic interactions in karst watersheds], PhD Thesis
Universite Montpellier II, Montpellier , 1-288
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Blackeagle, Cory W. (1989)
The origin and development of Brucker Breakdown and the adjacent area, Mammoth Cave System, Kentucky. Master’s Thesis
Eastern Kentucky University, , 1-191
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Gallegos, Josue Jacob (2011)
Modeling Groundwater Flow in Karst Aquifers: An Evaluation of MODFLOW-CFP at the Laboratory and Sub-Regional Scales
, Degree Awarded, 1-89
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Klimchouk A.A., Andreychouk V.N., and Turchinov I.I. (2009)
The structural prerequisites of speleogenesis in gypsum in the Western Ukraine. The 2-nd edition, revised.
University of Silesia - Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and Karstology, Sosnowiec - Simferopol, 1-97
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Klimchouk A.B. (2013)
Hypogene Speleogenesis, its hydrogeological significance and role in karst evolution (in Russian)
Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and Karstology, Simferopol, 1-180
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Klimchouk A.B. (2007)
Hypogene Speleogenesis: Hydrogeological and Morphogenetic Perspective.
Natl. Cave and Karst Research Institute, Carlsbad, 1-106
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Klimchouk A.B., Tymokhina E.I., Amelichev G.N., Dublyansky Y.V., Spötl C. (2013)
The hypogene karst of the Crimean Piedmont and its geomorphological role (in Russian)
Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and Karstology, Simferopol, 1-204
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Michie, Neville (1997)
An Investigation of the Climate, Carbon Dioxide and Dust in Jenolan Caves, N.S.W., PhD Thesis
School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, Macquarie, 1-298
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Petrov, Zhivko and Stoichkov, Konstantin (2012)
Expedition "Bankovitza 2012" a report
, Sofia, 1-36
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Poros, Zsófia (2011)
Fluid migration and porosity evolution in the Buda Hills, Hungary – selected examples from Triassic and Paleogene carbonate rocks/Dissertation submitted to the Ph.D. program for Geology and Geophysics at the Ph.D. School of Earth Sciences, Eötvös Lorï
, Budapest, Hungary, 1-155
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Ros, Andrés; Llamusí, José L.; Sánchez, Juan (2014)
Cuevas hipogénicas en la Región de Murcia – España
CENM-naturaleza, Murcia, 1-43
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