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. ...
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,
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. ...
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 fracture is 1. a break or secondary discontinuity in the rock mass, whether or not there has been relative movement across it. faults, thrusts, and joints are all fractures, but bedding planes, which are primary features, are not. in a more strictly hydrogeological context the term has been used to classify voids in the size range 0.1 to 10mm [9]. 2. breakage of rock strata [16]. 3. the general term for any mechanical discontinuity in the rock; it is, therefore, the collective term for joints, faults, cracks, etc. see also conduit; fissure.?