On espeleobloc, you can read an article published in Science, which is about how caves of Mallorca show the marks of a 20m sea level drop of the Mediterranean Sea between 85.400 and 76.600 bc.
Category Archives: science
Europe’s largest bat colony during wintertime (?)
December 7, 2009 – 1:53 pm
Europe’s largest bat colony during wintertime is situated in a cave in (Romania – the editor) Trascau Mountains (center-west) called ‘Huda Lui Papara’, where nine species of bats are hibernating, according to researches made by biologists of Cluj-Napoca.
President of the Sfinx Girda de Sus Speleological Association, Christian Ciubotarescu said in a news release that last [...]
Caves on Mars!
November 26, 2009 – 10:06 am
Caves could reveal secrets of life on Mars
Released: 10/19/2009 10:00:00 AM
Chris Okubo
U.S. Geological Survey
Virtual spelunking” finds possible cave system in Martian volcano flows
A series of depressions discovered on Mars could be entrances to a cave system that might provide shelter for future Mars missions or shed light on whether microbial life forms have ever existed [...]
A virus similar to Ebola attacks the bats in Spain
November 20, 2009 – 9:38 am
News extracted from THE PERIODICO.COM 30/10/2009 15:07 h NEW DISEASE
• The pathogen is present in the 27 species on the peninsula
A virus whose genetic sequence is quite homologous to the Ebola virus, which until now was restricted to certain African countries, have been found among the 27 species of bats live in caves of [...]
Karst related maps
September 25, 2009 – 8:43 am
Hydrogeology map of Europe 1 : 1 500 000 scale
http://www.bgr.de/app/fishy/ihme1500/
Geology map of Europe 1 : 5 000 000 scale
http://www.bgr.de/karten/IGME5000/IGME5000.htm
Limestone outcrops over the world :
http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/research/karst.shtml
Cave dig unearths important finds
September 16, 2009 – 8:19 am
Teeth and bones from late Ice Age animals, including hyenas, deer and woolly rhinos, have been discovered by archaeologists at a cave in Devon.
original here
In Cave Digital Surveying
September 16, 2009 – 8:19 am
Ther is an interesting article describing the way of digital cave surveying, and the equipement needed for that. There is also a forum, where people are discussing about this serious topics.
forum here
the article, and the suggested equipement for digital cave surveying
How to put cave surveys on Google Earth
September 15, 2009 – 8:18 am
An interesting article by Bill Chadwick, about how to put cave surveys on Google Earth API, here. The page demonstrates how to use Microsoft Research’s (MSR) MapCruncher to generate custom tile sets from cave surveys for use by the Google Map API.
Killer birds bite off bat’s heads
September 14, 2009 – 8:20 am
Péter Estók of the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Germany, first saw a bat being captured by a tit in a Hungarian cave in 1996. Ten years later, he and fellow bat ecologist Björn Siemers recorded 18 examples of pipistrelle bat predation by great tits, over the course of two winters in the same cave in the [...]
Knot Break Strength vs Rope Break Strength
September 3, 2009 – 12:59 pm
An interesting article by Dave Richards, who tested rope break strengths in various scenarios.It describes how the knots are reducing the breaking strength of ropes (static/dynamic).8 knots were chosen for testing; bowline, fig. 8 end, fig. 8 bight, butterfly, fisherman’s knot, double fisherman’s knot, sheet bend, and double sheet bend.