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The US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Karst Interest Group (KIG) will hold its next conference on 28 April through 2 May 2014 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, at the headquarters of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI).
International Conference on Groundwater in Karst, with optional pre-and post-conference field trips, will be held in Birmingham, UK, between June 20-26, 2015.
A new electronic publication is available online from the Karst Waters Institute (Special Publication 18), consisting of selected papers and abstracts for the Hypogene Cave Morphologies symposium held February 2 - 7, 2014, on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas.
Registration for the 6th International Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC-VI) is now open! The conference will be held in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA, from 17-22 August 2014.
The 14th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, which is generally known as "The Sinkhole Conference", will be held in Rochester, Minnesota, on 5-9 October 2015.
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That pelsparite is a microscopic texture. a limestone composed of pellets (peloids) in a matrix of cement [20]. synonyms: (french.) pelsparite; (german.) pelsarite, kalkstein gefugt aus kugelchen ?; (greek.) pelsparitis; (italian.) pelsparite; (spanish.) pelsparita; (turkish.) pelsparit. see peloids.?
Checkout all 2699 terms in the KarstBase Glossary of Karst and Cave Terms
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:
buried karst
Karst topography entirely buried by relatively younger post-rock or sediments and not part of the contemporary landscape [17]. Synonyms: fossil karst; (French.) karst couvert, karst fossile, paleokarst; (German.) bedeckter Karst, Urkarst; (Greek.) kaymeno paleokarst; (Italian.) carso sepolto; (Spanish.) karst soterrado; (Turkish.) gomulu karst; (Yugoslavian.) pokriveni krs See also covered karst; paleokarst; subsoil karst.
knots
Various methods of securing or tying ropes or webbing material together by cavers [13]. See also prusik knot; prusiking.