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 cavern is 1. underground opening in soluble rock similar to a cave. when used as a noun, it refers to large openings, but when used as an adjective it tends to refer to rock texture and so to small openings. however, in some countries (e.g., russia) cavern refers to small openings in a rock [20]. 2. a synonym of cave with the implication of large size. 3. a system or series of caves or cave chambers. 4. a cave, often used poetically or to connote larger-than-average size [10]. synonyms: (french.) caverne; (german.) hohle, kaverne; (greek.) speleon; (italian.) caverna, grotta; (russian.) kaverna; (spanish.) caverna, cueva; (turkish.) kovuk; (yugoslavian.) kaverna. see also cave.?