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 paleokarst is 1. a karstified rock or area that has been buried by later sediments; in some places, ancient caves have been completely filled by the later sediments [10]. 2. a decoupled contemporary system that has experienced tectonic subsidence and lie unconformably beneath clastic cover rocks, occasionally becoming exhumed and re-integrated into the active system [17]. 3. a karst formed in the past under an earlier erosion cycle and often in remote geological times. the karst is preserved by burial or suspension of karstification processes [20]. 4. a karstified surface and the karst features associated with it, such as caves, that have been buried by younger rocks. paleokarstic features at various scales may be recognized within most carbonate successions. more rarely they may be reexposed (exhumed) by the effects of later uplift and erosion [9]. synonyms: (french.) paleokarst; (german.) palaokarst, fobiler karst; (greek.) paleokarst; (italian.) paleocarsismo, carsismo fossile; (russian.) paleokarst; (spanish.) paleokarst; (turkish.) eski karst; (yugoslavian.) paleokrs, paleokras, paleokarst. see also buried karst.?