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 saturated water is water which is in chemical equilibrium with its enclosing media and is thus nonagressive. water, at about 25"c, in contact with calcite and the normal atmosphere, will contain approximately 30 to 50 ppm of ca when saturated, variations being mainly due to differing ph. determination of the saturation point of natural waters is complex [20]. synonyms: (french.) eau saturee; (german.) gesattigtes waber; (greek.) koresmenon ydor; (italian.) acqua satura; (spanish.) agua saturada; (turkish.) doygun su; (yugoslavian.) zasicena voda.?