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 troglobite is 1. an animal living permanently underground in the dark zone of caves and only accidentally leaving it [10]. 2. a creature that is fully adapted to life in total darkness and can only complete its life cycle underground [13]. 3. a creature that lives permanently underground beyond the daylight zone of a cave. many troglobitic species are adapted in some way to living in a totally dark environment. synonyms: (french.) troglobie; (german.) troglobiont; (greek.) troglothitis; (italian.) troglobio; (russian.) troglobiont; (spanish.) troglobio; (turkish.) troglobit, kor balik.?
Based on "A Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology with Special to Environmental Karst Hydrology" EPA/600/R-02/003, 2002, EPA: Washington, DC., Speleogenesis Glossary includes 2699 cave & karst terms