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Recent publication in PNAS demonstrates that Geomyces destructans, the fungus responsible for devastating declines of bat populations in eastern North America is most probably introduced by visitors from Europe. This fungus was found in European caves but affected bats do not develop WNS.
International Conference "Mine Water Solutions in Extreme Environments" is being organized in Lima, Peru, in April 2013.
The International Scientific- practical Conference “PROTECTED KATST TERRITORIES – MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT” will be held on 16-20 September 2012 in Shumen, Bulgaria.
Lisa Worledge the partnership officer for the UK Bat Conservation Trust confirms that Britain's 17 species of bat are safe from white-nose syndrome. Caves, old railway tunnels and abandoned buildings where bats hibernate during winter have been monitored.
Six sessions on caves and karst are offered this year in the program of the Geological Society of America Convention to be held this year in Charlotte, North Carolina on 4-7 November.
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That cutter is 1. (tennessee.) solution crevice in limestone underlying residual phosphate deposits. 2. a karren-like groove formed beneath the soil, more commonly referred to as subsoil karren [10]. see also karren.?
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Featured articles from Cave & Karst Science Journals
Gypsum-carbonate speleothems from Cueva de las Espadas (Naica mine, Mexico): mineralogy and palaeohydrogeological implications, Gázquez Fernando; Calaforra José Maria; Forti Paolo; Rull Fernando; Martínez-Frías Jesús
In defense of a fluctuating-interface, particle-accretion origin of folia, Davis Donald G.
Corrosion of limestone tablets in sulfidic ground-water: measurements and speleogenetic implications, Galdenzi, Sandro
Speleogenetic effects of interaction between deeply derived fracture-conduit and intrastratal matrix flow in hypogene karst settings, Klimchouk A.B., Tymokhina E.I., Amelichev G.N.
Measurement of luminescent banding in speleothems: some techniques and limitations, Crowell, Bryan E.; White, William B.
Active tectonics and earthquake destructions in caves of northern and central Switzerland, Becker, Arnfried; Häuselmann, Philipp; Eikenberg, Jost; Gilli, Eric
Scientific drilling of speleothems – a technical note, Spötl, Christoph; Mattey, David
Ogof Draenen: speleogenesis of a hydrological see-saw from the karst of South Wales, FARRANT, Andrew R.; SIMMS, Michael J.
The Use of a Karstic Cave System in a Study of Active Tectonics: Fault Movements Recorded at Driny Cave, Malé Karpaty M (Slovakia), Briestensky´, M.; Stemberk, J.; Michalík, J.; Bella, P.; Rowberry, M.
Sulfate and Phosphate Speleothems at Jenolan Caves, New South Wales, Australia , Pogson, Ross E.; Osborne, R. Armstrong L.; Colchester, David M.; Cendón,Dioni I.
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Hypogenic contribution to speleogenesis in a predominant epigenic karst system: A case study from the Venetian Alps, Italy, Tisato Nicola, Sauro Francesco, Bernasconi Stefano M., Bruijn Rolf H.C., De Waele Jo
NALPS: a precisely dated European climate record 120–60 ka, Boch R., Cheng, H.; Spotl, C.; Edwards, R. L.; Wang, X.; Hauselmann, Ph.
Speleothem deposition at the glaciation threshold — An attempt to constrain the age and paleoenvironmental significance of a detrital-rich flowstone sequence from Entrische Kirche Cave (Austria), Meyer, M.C.; Spötl, Ch.; Mangini, A.; Tessadri, R.
The climatic cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years, Cheng, H.; Zhang, P.Z.; Spötl, C.; Edwards, R.L.; Cai, Y.J.; Zhang, D. Z.; Sang, W.C.; Tan, M.; An, Z.S.
High-precision 238U–234U–230Th disequilibrium dating of the recent past: a review, Zhao, Jian-xin; Yu, Ke-fu; Feng, Yue-xing
Isotopic archives of sulphate in speleothems, Wynn, Peter M.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Baker, Andy; Baldini, James U.L; McDermott, Frank
Carbonate porosity creation by mesogenetic dissolution: Reality or illusion?, Ehrenberg, Stephen N.; Walderhaug, Olav; Bjorlykke, Knut
Ferruginous thermal spring complexes, northwest Tasmania: evidence that far-field stresses acting on a fracture mesh can open and maintain vertical flow in carbonate terrains, Davidson, Garry J.; Bavea, Michael; Harris, Kathryn
Origin and karst geomorphological significance of the enigmatic Australian Nullarbor Plain ‘blowholes’, Doerr, Stefan H.; Davies, Rob R.; Lewis,Alexander; Pilkington, Graham ; Webb, John A.; Ackroyd, Peter J.; Bodger, Owen
Giant pockmarks in a carbonate platform (Maldives, Indian Ocean), Betzler, C.; Lindhorst, S.; Hubscher, C.; Ludmann, T.; Furstenau, J.; Reijmer, J.
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Glossary of Karst and Cave Terms!
Based on "A Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology with Special to Environmental Karst Hydrology" EPA/600/R-02/003, 2002, EPA: Washington, DC., Speleogenesis Glossary includes 2699 cave & karst terms
Example of the Karst & Cave Glossary:
Theis equation
The nonequilibrium equation of radial flow towards a well [16].
tightest packing
An arrangement of particles allowing only minimum void space a unit cell of a sample [16].