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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 Also we have forum there Site's language is Russian Welcome! --Aleksandr Shakalov. ...

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 Reviews of the genera Schaefferia Absolon, 1900, Deuteraphorura Absolon, 1901, Plutomurus Yosii, 1956 and the Anurida Laboulbène, 1865 species group without eyes, with the description of four new species of cave springtails (Collembola) from Krubera-Voronya cave, Arabika Massif, Abkhazia Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 5 (2012) 35–85 DOI: follow this link (information supplied by Sofia Reboleira). ...

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 Several interactive installations are available as well as audiovisual room presenting current state of the art in current research findings 28 spectacular Austrian caves are presented Important goal of the exhibition is to demonstrate how Vienna is supplied by drinking water from karst areas. ...

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That community is all the plants and animals that live in a particular habitat and are bound together by food chains and other interrelations [23].?

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CavesID - mapping Indonesian caves
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
The Journal "Speleogenesis and Evolution of Karst Aquifers" ceased publication with the Issue 12, 2012

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Cave Collapse Evolution Graduate Student Research Positions
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.

G-cubed: tropical cyclone masking and speleothem paleo-rainfall proxy records
Masking of inter-annual climate proxy signals by residual tropical cyclone rainwater: Evidence and challenges for low-latitude speleothem paleoclimatology

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That effective hydraulic conductivity is see hydraulic conductivity, effective.?

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Featured articles from Cave & Karst Science Journals

Characterization and conceptualization of a relict karst aquifer (Bilecik, Turkey), Aydin, H.; Ekmekci, M.; Soylu, M.E.

Hypogenic origin of Provalata Cave, Republic of Macedonia: a distinct case of successive thermal carbonic and sulfuric acid speleogenesis, Temovski, Marjan; Audra, Philippe; Mihevc, Andrej; Spangenberg, Jorge E. ; Polyak, Victor; McIntosh, William; Bigot, Jean-Yves.

Incision history of Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, USA, from the uranium-series analyses of water-table speleothems, Polyak, V.J.; DuChene, H.; Davis, D.G.; Palmer, A.N., Palmer, M.V., Asmerom, Y.

Comparative microbial community composition from secondary carbonate (moonmilk) deposits: implications for the Cansiliella servadeii cave hygropetric food web, Summers Engel, A.; Paoletti, M.G.; Beggio, M.; Dorigo, L.; Pamio, A.; Gomiero, T.; Furlan, C.; Brilli, M.; Leandro Dreon, A.; Bertoni, R.; Squartini, A.

Layer-bounding surfaces in stalagmites as keys to better paleoclimatological histories and chronologies, Railsback, L.B.; Akers, P.D.; Wang, L.; Holdridge, G.A.; Riavo Voarintsoa, N.

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Pennsylvanian paleokarst and cave fills from northern Illinois, USA: a window into Late Carboniferous environments and landscapes, Plotnick, R. E.; Kenig, F.; Scott, A. C;. Glasspool, I. J;. Eble, C. F.; Lang, W. J.

Die Erdf�lle von Layla und Al-Kharj � Einblicke in die Karst-Hydrogeologie des oberen Jura von Saudi-Arabien, Schleusener, Florian; Kempe, Stephan; Dirks, Heiko; Rausch, Randolf; G�bel, Patricia

Comment on �Sandstone caves on Venezuelan tepuis: Return to pseudokarst?� by R. Aubrecht, T. L�nczos, M. Gregor, J. Schl�gl, B. Sm�da, P. Lisc�k, Ch. Brewer-Car�as, L. Vlcek, Geomorphology 132 (2011), 351�365, Sauro, Francesco; Piccini, Leonardo; Mecchia, Marco; De Waele, Jo

The weathered Carboniferous limestone at Bullslaughter Bay, South Wales: the first example of ghost-rock recorded in the British Isles, Rowberry, Matt D.; Battiau-Queney, Yvonne; Walsh, Peter; Błażejowski, Błażej; Bout-Roumazeilles, Viviane; Trentesaux, Alain; Kř�ov�, Lenka; Griffiths, Hywel

Geomorphology and natural hazards in karst areas: A review, De Waele, Jo; Guti�rrez, Francisco; Parise, Mario; Plan, Lukas

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The KarstBase is a fully searchable online bibliography database of current literature on karstology and geospeleology. It currently contains over 13 thousands references and dynamically growths. KarstBase fully covers 16 major karst and cave science journals (World Karst/Cave Science Journals) and indexes large number of publications in the field from prime geoscience journals, books and conference proceedings. Whenever possible, links are provided to full-text PDFs of published articles (directly accessible if a source publication is an open access).

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Filling the Hole: Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology of Caves and Karst. Session Abstracts, GSA Denver Annual Meeting, 31 October �3 November 2010, 2013,

Naica caves: perhaps the most important mine caves of the world, 2013, Badino, Giovanni; Forti, Paolo

THE SAN PAOLO MINE TUNNEL AT SA DUCHESSA (DOMUSNOVAS, SW SARDINIA): TEN INTERCEPTED NATURAL CAVES AND FIRST DATA ON THE COMPOSITION OF SOME SPELEOTHEMS , 2013, Simone, Argiolas; Caddeo, Guglielmo Angelo; Casu, Lucilla; Muntoni, Alberto; Papinuto, Silvestro

HYPOGENIC SPELEOGENESIS WITH FERRUGINOUS ORE. THE PIEI MINE-CAVE (LAGNES, VAUCLUSE, FRANCE) SPELEOGENESI IPOGENICA IN UN GIACIMENTO DI FERRO. LA GROTTA MINIERA DI PIEI (LAGNES, VAUCLUSE, FRANCIA), 2013, Audra, Philippe; Bigot, Jean-Yves; Camus, Hubert; Gauchon, Christophe; Wienin, Michel

Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Speleology, July 21�28, Brno. Volume 3, 2013,

Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Speleology July 21�28, Brno. Volume 2, 2013,

Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Speleology, July 21�28, Brno. Volume 1, 2013,

Pennsylvanian paleokarst and cave fills from northern Illinois, USA: a window into Late Carboniferous environments and landscapes, 2009, Plotnick, R. E.; Kenig, F.; Scott, A. C;. Glasspool, I. J;. Eble, C. F.; Lang, W. J.

Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Speleology, Kerrville, Texas (United States of America) July 19�26, 2009 Volume 1, Symposia , Part 1, 2009,

Journees 2012 de Speleologie Scientifique, Abstracts of the Symposium, Han-sur-Lesse, 8-9 December 2012 , 2012, AV

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