Karst session at the AGU Fall 2016 Meeting in San Francisco
There will be a karst session at the AGU Fall 2016 Meeting in San Francisco, USA in December 12-16: Characterization, Modeling, and Remediation of Fissured, Carbonate, and Karst Groundwater Systems

A new book on caves and karst in Austria
A book "Höhlen und Karst in Österreich" (Caves and karst in Austria; Editors: Christoph Spötl, Lukas Plan & Ehrad Christian) will be printed until mid of July. Subscription is available.

Unusual perspective on caves
Many inspiring ideas on caves can be found in images created by children, generated by the International Contest of Kid’s Drawing "Caves in the Eyes of our Children".

Session on Karst Aquifers at the 43th IAH Congress, France
A call to submit an abstract to a session devoted to karst aquifers, which will be held in September in Montpellier during the 43rd IAH Congress

Acta Carsologica 60th Anniversary issue 44-3
Acta Carsologica 44/3, the issue dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the journal, is now online.

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That tower karst, towerkarst, turmkarst is 1. a spectacular variety of karst landscape dominated by steep or vertical sided limestone towers each 30-300m high. by far the most extensive and best developed tower karst is the guangxi province of southern china. towers originate as residual cones and are then steepened by water table undercutting from surround alluviated plains. tectonic uplift matched by karst erosion then increases tower heights, but if uplift exceeds surface lowering the towers are raised to hillside locations and the landscape is rejuvenated to form a new generation of dolines and cone karst. many towers are riddled with relict caves at high levels, and with active caves through their bases [9]. 2. karst topography characterized by isolated residual limestone hills displaying numerous shapes (e.g., cone shaped, steep-sided) separated by areas of alluvium or other detrital sand; towers are generally forest-covered hills, and many have flat tops. they may form as isolated hills or in groups. 3. a type of karst topography, common in the tropics, in which the residual hills rise in steep-sided but flat-topped mounds (resembling towers) from intervening depressions or dolinas (sinkholes) [20]. synonyms: (french.) karst a tourelles, karst a tours; (german.) turmkarst, kegelkarst; (italian.) carsismo con forme residuali a torre; (spanish.) karst de torres; (turkish.) kuleli karst. see also cone karst; cupola karst; pinnacle karst; fengcong; fenglin.?

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