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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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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That kankar; kunkar is (australian.) see caliche.?

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The USGS Karst Interest Group 2014 conference
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
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.
Hypogene Cave Morphologies - Symposium Proceedings
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 is open: 6th International Workshop on Ice Caves
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.
14th Sinkhole Conference - 2015, Rochester, Minnesota
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 effective abstractions is the difference between total precipitation and effective precipitation [16].?

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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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Karst processes along a major seismotectonic zone: an example from the Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic, Suchy, V.; Zeman, A.
ESR and 230h/234U dating of speleothems from Aladaglar Mountain Range (AMR) in Turkey , Ulusoya, Ülkü; Anbara, Gül; Bayarıb, Serdar; Uysalc, Tonguç
Hypogene Höhlengenese: Aufsteigendes Grundwasser und Erdwärme als Antrieb der Entstehung labyrinthischer Höhlen in der Nördlichen Frankenalb und in anderen Teilen Bayerns, Glaser, Stefan
Seismic study of the low-permeability volume in southern France karst systems, Galibert, P.-Y.; Valois, R.; Mendes, M.; Gurin, R.
The primokarst, former stages of karstification, or how solution caves can born, RODET, J.
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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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Hypogene Speleogenesis, its hydrogeological significance and role in karst evolution (in Russian), 2013, Klimchouk A.B.
The hypogene karst of the Crimean Piedmont and its geomorphological role (in Russian), 2013, Klimchouk A.B., Tymokhina E.I., Amelichev G.N., Dublyansky Y.V., Spötl C.
Hypogene Cave Morphologies. Selected papers and abstracts of the symposium held February 2 through 7, 2014, San Salvador Island, Bahamas, 2014,
Hypogenic Karstification and Conduit System Controlling by Tectonic Pattern in Foundation Rocks of the Salman Farsi Dam in South-Western Iran, 2013, Koleini, M.; Van Rooy, J.L.; Bumby, A.
EVAPORITE KARST IN THE PERMIAN BASIN REGION OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO: THE HUMAN IMPACT , 2013, Land, Lewis
INVESTIGATIONS OF LARGE SCALE SINKHOLE COLLAPSES, LAIBIN, GUANGXI, CHINA, 2013, Gao, Yongli; Luo, Weiquan; Jiang, Xiaozhen; Lei, Mingtang; Dai, Jianling
DELINEATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF KARST DEPRESSIONS USING LIDAR: FORT HOOD MILITARY INSTALLATION, TEXAS, 2013, Shaw Faulkner, M.G.; Stafford, K.W.; Bryant, A.W.
AN EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED GIS TOOLS FOR DELINEATING KARST SINKHOLES AND CLOSED DEPRESSIONS FROM 1-METER LIDAR-DERIVED DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA, 2013, Doctor, D.H.; Young, J.A.
THE USE OF DROUGHT-INDUCED “CROP LINES” AS A TOOL FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF KARST TERRAIN, 2013, Panno, S.V.; Luman, D.E.; Kelly, W.R.; Alschuler, M.B.
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF GROUNDWATER FLOW IN THE EDWARDS AQUIFER THROUGH THE KNIPPA GAP HYDROGEOLOGIC CONSTRICTION, UVALDE COUNTY, TEXAS, 2013, Adkins, J.

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