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Thanks to efforts of Dr. Oana Moldovan from the Institutul de Speologie "Emil Racovita" (Romania), the entire content of the “Subterranean Biology” journal is now represented at the KarstBase and its “World Cave and Karst Science journals” sub-system
Currently, the Indonesian cavers running the mini project to show the distribution of caves in Indonesian karst. The project, so called CavesID, is a voluntary project gathering all the information about the caves in Indonesia.
The Journal "Speleogenesis and Evolution of Karst Aquifers" ceased publication with the Issue 12, 2012
A special ‘Featured Articles” section, a part of the online KarstBase bibliography database, is now organized in a separate page
Long-term rock behavior is important for understanding the degradation and failure of rock slopes, underground excavations, dam and bridge foundations, national monuments, and other critical rock structures.
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That relapsing fever is one type of borreliosis, caused by various species of borrelia spirochaetes carried by several species of tick. related to lyme disease, but less chronic and milder. an occupational disease of some cavers in texas who come in contact with the soft tick ornithodoros turicatae, which carries borrelia turicatae and may live in cave entrances [23].?
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
zones of karstification
Cvijic (1926, 1960) distinguishes three zones of karstification: (1) dry zone in the upper part of the karst with caves almost completely dry; (2) transition zone where water flows downstream almost permanently; and (3) deep zone with slow downstream flow and local siphons [20]. Synonyms: (French.) zones de karstification; (German.) Zone der Verkarstung; (Greek.) zoni karstikopiiseos; (Italian.) zone idrogeologiche; (Spanish.) zona de karstificacion; (Turkish.) karstlasma kusagi; (Yugoslavian.) zone karstifikacije.