MWH Global

Enviroscan Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and Karstology

Community news

Speleology in Kazakhstan

Shakalov on 04 Jul, 2018
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. ...

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. ...

Did you know?

That diphenyl brilliant flavine 7GFF, direct yellow 96 is a yellowish dye initially developed to color tennis balls and subsequently shown to be useful in environmental tracing studies. dye type: stilbene. see also fluorescent dyes.?

Checkout all 2699 terms in the KarstBase Glossary of Karst and Cave Terms

BLOG on Speleogenesis.info < See all Blog posts
Any papers/works on "fracking" in karst?
irasasowsky on 05 Sep, 2015

Hi Folks:

Has anyone come across any scientific work examining concerns over hydraulic fracturing in karst settings?  I have seen plenty of opinions, but nothing very thoughtful or data-based. Or any case studies. 

Thanks,

Ira

ids@uakron.edu

Keywords: hydraulic fracturing, karst

Replies: (1)

Peter Febbroriello on 30 Nov, -0001

Check http://www.well.com/~peter for links to several pertinent pages. The data was obtained via Fractracker and several personal cave database files. Cave to frac well distances calculated via great circle method.

 

 

Latest Blog Posts

International Contest of Kid’s Drawing "Caves in the Eyes of our Children"

Helga on 12 Mar, 2016

CAVE DIVING

p.boudinet on 23 Jul, 2015

Speleology of Georgia

lasharela on 25 Apr, 2015

Geocaching in Relation to Caves

MikeBilbo on 29 Oct, 2014

Is it a karst terrane, karst terrain, or both?

cory.blackeagle@gmail.com on 28 Oct, 2014

Karst Division is created in the GSA

cory.blackeagle@gmail.com on 27 Oct, 2014

Spanish caver injured in a deep cave in Peru.

Raul Perez-Lopez on 21 Sep, 2014

Perspectives on the ‘Four-State Model’ of cave genesis in the dimensions of length and depth

DerekFord on 08 Jun, 2014

Cave Collapse Evolution Graduate Student Research Positions

johnny.lyonsbaral on 04 Jun, 2013

Kohrang spring

aliakbarsaba on 02 Jun, 2013

New Open Access movement guidelines

Klimchouk on 12 Sep, 2012

Is the bottom really the bottom?

DandRaven on 12 Aug, 2012

The Speleogenesis Community has reached 700 members

Klimchouk on 03 Aug, 2012

Speleogenesis Blog is launched!

Klimchouk on 10 Jul, 2012

HypoKarst Project

Klimchouk on 10 Jul, 2012