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 natural arch is 1. a residual portion of the roof of a subsurface karst cavity which has not collapsed. such a natural arch may occur as a surface topographic feature, or as a part of a cave system [20]. 2. a rock arch or very short natural tunnel; contrasted with natural bridge, which spans a ravine or valley [10]. synonyms: (french.) arche naturelle; (german.) naturlisches gewolbe, naturbrucke, felsfenster, felsbrucke; (greek.) physike apsitha; (italian.) arco naturale; (russian.) estestvennaya arka; (spanish.) arco natural; (turkish.) dogal kemer; (yugoslavian.) prirodni svod, luk, naravni obok. see also natural bridge.?