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Recent publication in PNAS demonstrates that Geomyces destructans, the fungus responsible for devastating declines of bat populations in eastern North America is most probably introduced by visitors from Europe. This fungus was found in European caves but affected bats do not develop WNS.
International Conference "Mine Water Solutions in Extreme Environments" is being organized in Lima, Peru, in April 2013.
The International Scientific- practical Conference “PROTECTED KATST TERRITORIES – MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT” will be held on 16-20 September 2012 in Shumen, Bulgaria.
Lisa Worledge the partnership officer for the UK Bat Conservation Trust confirms that Britain's 17 species of bat are safe from white-nose syndrome. Caves, old railway tunnels and abandoned buildings where bats hibernate during winter have been monitored.
Six sessions on caves and karst are offered this year in the program of the Geological Society of America Convention to be held this year in Charlotte, North Carolina on 4-7 November.
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That ground-water system is a ground-water reservoir and its contained water. also, the collective hydrodynamical and geochemical processes at work in the reservoir [22].?
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Gypsum-carbonate speleothems from Cueva de las Espadas (Naica mine, Mexico): mineralogy and palaeohydrogeological implications, Gázquez Fernando; Calaforra José Maria; Forti Paolo; Rull Fernando; Martínez-Frías Jesús
In defense of a fluctuating-interface, particle-accretion origin of folia, Davis Donald G.
Corrosion of limestone tablets in sulfidic ground-water: measurements and speleogenetic implications, Galdenzi, Sandro
Speleogenetic effects of interaction between deeply derived fracture-conduit and intrastratal matrix flow in hypogene karst settings, Klimchouk A.B., Tymokhina E.I., Amelichev G.N.
Measurement of luminescent banding in speleothems: some techniques and limitations, Crowell, Bryan E.; White, William B.
Active tectonics and earthquake destructions in caves of northern and central Switzerland, Becker, Arnfried; Häuselmann, Philipp; Eikenberg, Jost; Gilli, Eric
Scientific drilling of speleothems – a technical note, Spötl, Christoph; Mattey, David
Ogof Draenen: speleogenesis of a hydrological see-saw from the karst of South Wales, FARRANT, Andrew R.; SIMMS, Michael J.
The Use of a Karstic Cave System in a Study of Active Tectonics: Fault Movements Recorded at Driny Cave, Malé Karpaty M (Slovakia), Briestensky´, M.; Stemberk, J.; Michalík, J.; Bella, P.; Rowberry, M.
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Hypogenic contribution to speleogenesis in a predominant epigenic karst system: A case study from the Venetian Alps, Italy, Tisato Nicola, Sauro Francesco, Bernasconi Stefano M., Bruijn Rolf H.C., De Waele Jo
NALPS: a precisely dated European climate record 120–60 ka, Boch R., Cheng, H.; Spotl, C.; Edwards, R. L.; Wang, X.; Hauselmann, Ph.
Speleothem deposition at the glaciation threshold — An attempt to constrain the age and paleoenvironmental significance of a detrital-rich flowstone sequence from Entrische Kirche Cave (Austria), Meyer, M.C.; Spötl, Ch.; Mangini, A.; Tessadri, R.
The climatic cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years, Cheng, H.; Zhang, P.Z.; Spötl, C.; Edwards, R.L.; Cai, Y.J.; Zhang, D. Z.; Sang, W.C.; Tan, M.; An, Z.S.
High-precision 238U–234U–230Th disequilibrium dating of the recent past: a review, Zhao, Jian-xin; Yu, Ke-fu; Feng, Yue-xing
Isotopic archives of sulphate in speleothems, Wynn, Peter M.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Baker, Andy; Baldini, James U.L; McDermott, Frank
Carbonate porosity creation by mesogenetic dissolution: Reality or illusion?, Ehrenberg, Stephen N.; Walderhaug, Olav; Bjorlykke, Knut
Ferruginous thermal spring complexes, northwest Tasmania: evidence that far-field stresses acting on a fracture mesh can open and maintain vertical flow in carbonate terrains, Davidson, Garry J.; Bavea, Michael; Harris, Kathryn
Origin and karst geomorphological significance of the enigmatic Australian Nullarbor Plain ‘blowholes’, Doerr, Stefan H.; Davies, Rob R.; Lewis,Alexander; Pilkington, Graham ; Webb, John A.; Ackroyd, Peter J.; Bodger, Owen
Giant pockmarks in a carbonate platform (Maldives, Indian Ocean), Betzler, C.; Lindhorst, S.; Hubscher, C.; Ludmann, T.; Furstenau, J.; Reijmer, J.
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Kuzgun Cave and its Context: the first super-deep cave in the Aladaglar Massif, Turkey
- Kuzgun Cave and its Context: the first super-deep cave in the Aladaglar Massif, Turkey
- Aladaglar Massif
- Karst Study and Cave Exploration Challenges in the Aladaglar High Mountains
- Aladaglar Karst & Cave Research Project
- Cave Search and Exploration in Aladaglar: Approach, Methods and Progress in 2001-2004
- Expedition of July 2004: Kuzgun Cave
- Preliminary conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
Vladimir Iljukhin Cave System: breakthrough behind the fourth siphon
3N Cave, New World’s Longest Cave in Salt
Krubera (Voronja) Cave: the first 2000m+ cave on Earth
- Krubera Cave : the first 2000m+ cave on Earth
- August-September 2009 Expedition news: The Nekujbyshevskaya Branch has been pushed to -1557 m
- August-September 2010 Expedition news: The Nekujbyshevskaya Branch has been pushed to -1697 m
- August-September 2008 Expedition news
- August-September 2007 expedition news
- August-September 2006 expedition news
- February-March 2005 expedition news
- October 2004 expedition news
- August 2004 expedition news