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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 30, June 2007

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Deep Pits List -- The Saga of Cueva Charco, Third-Deepest Cave in Mexico -- The Discovery and Descent of Sotano de las Golondrinas -- The Exploration of Sistema Sac Actun, 1987-2007 -- Sistema Yax Muul -- The Infernal Survey in the Crystal Paradise -- Sian Ka'an Exploration Expedition -- Bat Caves of Chihuahua and Snora -- Pits and Parrots: The 2006 Los Toros Expedition -- Yaxchen and Ox Bel Ha, Quintana Roo -- Caves of Tabasco Project 2007 -- Descriptions of Caves Explored by Circolo Speleologico Romano in Chiapas, 1996 and 1998-2001 -- Overview of the Geology and Hydrology of Coastal Quintana Roo -- XII International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology -- Sierra la Gavia, Coahuila -- The Caves of Cuatro Cienegas -- Cueva del Zurdo -- Twenty Years of Belgian Caving Expeditions in Mexico -- Mapping Chikin Ha with a PAssive Fluxgate Magnetometer -- The Selenite Caves of Naica, Mexico -- Selected Maps from Expe Sous Sierra 1987

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 29, June 2006

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Mexico News -- Deep Pits List -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Summary of the 2005 J2 Expedition -- An Excursion to Sotano de la Culebra -- A Dream Fulfilled at Coyolatl -- Sotano de Los Hernandez, Cave of Many Pithces -- Report on the Incident and Recovery Efforts at Resumidero Oztoquito, Puebla -- Booty and Solitude: Two Weeks in the Purificacion Karst -- The Helipcopter and the Bee: Cerro Rabon 2006 -- Evolutionary Biology and Cueva de Villa Lluz: Ichthyological Research in a Sulfidic Cave in Tabasco -- High Desert Caving -- Gomez Farias Caving, November 2005 -- First Through-Trip, Resumidero Izote-Pozas Azules -- Hydroleveling of Very Deep Caves, with an Example from Voronja (Krubera) Cave -- The Juquila Canyon, Oaxaca -- Some Pits in Northern Oaxaca -- Underground in Gomez Farias, Thanksgiving 2005 -- Jalisco Caving 2005 -- Tabasco 2006 -- A Nineteenth-Century Visit to Cacahuamilpa -- Los Amigos de la Gruta: Bustamante 2006 -- The Return to J2 -- Proyecto Espeleologico Purificacion: Car Capers in Chupaderos -- The Great Sierra de El Abra Caving Expedition -- Obituary: Gregory Brown

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 28, May 2005

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Mexico News -- Deep Pits List -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Return to Tabasco -- Exploring a Wild Cave -- Jade Pearl Exploration Project, Sistema Ox Bel Ha, Quintana Roo -- Tancah Cave Revisited -- Caves, Rivers and Scorpions: A Biological Excursion through the Mexican Karst -- Coahuila Caving -- Durazno Area, Dos Aguas, Michoacan -- Caves of San Fernando, Chiapas -- Cheve 2003 -- Cheve 2004 -- Proyecto Cerro Verde -- Journey through the Purificacion Karst -- El Abra Trip Report from the 1800s -- British Caving in Cuetzalan before 2004 -- Cuetzalan 2004 -- Cuetzalan in the Press -- Looking for the Window -- The Sacred Caves of Aire and Brujo -- Xilitla 2004 -- Tecoman 2004-2005 -- The Collapsing Qanat -- The Exploration of Cueva del Puercoespin, San Fernando, Chiapas -- Ants! -- Obituary: Marike Suzan Jasper -- Obituary: Mariano Silva Fuentes -- Book Review: In the Maw of the Earth Monster -- Photographs from Tlamaya, 1996

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 27, May 2004

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Authors' Addresses -- New AMCS Bulletins -- Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Deep Pits List -- Proyecto Cerro Rabon 2004 -- Mexpe 2002 - Sistema Tepapa -- Caving in Sistema Cheve, Oaxaca -- Caves on the Jalpan Quadrangle, Queretaro -- Ox Bel Ha, Spring 2003 -- Maya Cave Shrines, Quintana Roo -- Speciation in Aquatic Trogloxenes in Cenotes -- Caving in Cuetzalan -- History: First Speleological Survey of Mexico Trip -- Chiropterphobia -- Gruta de San Sebastian -- Grutas de Balancanche -- Diving the Cheve Sumps -- Caves of Atoyac, Veracruz -- Geography of Caves in Quintana Roo -- A Vampire Roost in a Cold Cave -- Book Review: The Devil's Book of Culture

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 26, June 2003

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Authors' Addresses -- Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Deep Pits List -- Amigos de la Gruta: Six Years of the Bustamanta Labor Day Project -- The Mexican Blindcat -- Dry Caves of Puerto Aventuras -- Grieta de la Perdicion, Nuevo Leon -- Sontano de Camino de los Pinos -- An Adventure in Oaxaca -- Caves of Tinum, Yucatan -- Exploration During Mexpeleo 2002 -- First Conference on Underwater Cave Archaeology -- The Mayan Maze of Actun Kaua -- Caving above the Nacimiento del Rio Uruapan -- La Campana -- Nacimiento del Rio Uruapan -- Speleological Survey of Mexico 1963 (history) -- The Cenotes North of Tunkas, Yucatan -- Mexican Wintering Sites of Bats from Carlsbad Cavern -- Book Review: AMCS Bulletin 9 -- Book Review: AMCS Bulletin 10 -- Historical Photographs from 1964, 1965

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, Index to Caves and Localities, No. 1 to 25

  Association for Mexican Cave Studies

  An index of caves and localities mentioned in the Association of Mexican Cave Studies (AMCS) Activities Newsletters 1 through 15.

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 25, May 2002

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Authors' Addresses -- Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Deep Pits List -- Cerro Rabon 1995-2000 -- Tabasco 2001 -- The Exploration of Sistema Ox Bel Ha -- Where Does the Sewage Go? -- 2001 InnerSpaceOdyssey Expedition -- Cueva de los Cristales -- A New Map of Sac Actun, Quintana Roo -- Searching for Caves near El Cielo, Tamaulipas -- Recent Field Investigations of Blind Astyanax -- The Long Crawl -- The Black Hole of Coahuila -- Mixtlancingo: The River of the Underworld -- Grutas de los Rios San Jeronimo and Chontalcuatlan -- Accident Report: Resumidero La Joya, Guerrero -- Zacaton Update -- Cave-Rescue Courses in Mexico -- The Yucatan Deep Speleological Dive Team -- Some Quintana Roo Diving Adventures -- Proyecto Espeleologico Sierra Oxmolon -- Filo de Caballo, Guerrero

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 24, June 2001

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Authors' Addresses -- Mexico News -- Deep Pits List -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Rescue in the Sierra Negra -- Los Cenotes de Rancho La Azufrosa -- Sistema Ehecatl-Xalltegoxtli -- The Acid Test: Cueva de Villa Luz -- Atepolihuit del Teponahuas -- Surveying Underwater Caves -- Dos Aguas, Michoacan, 1999 -- Rancho Colorado, Nuevo Leon -- Accident Report: Sotano del Aire -- Sistema Ponderosa Resurvey Project -- The Pit in Dos Ojos -- Myrna's Gift: Nohoch Kiin, Quintana Roo -- The Quintana Roo Speleological Survey -- Chemosynthetic Contributions to Yucatan Ecosystem -- Ghoulish Caving -- Book Review: Cenotes of the Riviera Maya -- Book Review: Caves: Exploring Hidden Realms and Science at the Extreme -- Book Review: Rio La Venta: Treasure of Chiapas -- Book Review: Studies in the Cave and Endogean Fauna of North America

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 23, May 1999

  John Stembel

  Contents: Location map for articles -- Mexico News -- Deep Pits List -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Sierra Los Llanitos, San Luis Potosi -- Proyecto Espeleologico Purificacion 1997-1999 -- Dos Aguas Area -- Proyecto Cheve Update -- Nita Nido and Nita Ntau, Huautla, Oaxaca -- Caverna de San Bartolo Tutotepec -- Lava Tubes of Cuernavaca -- Nita Nashi, Huautla, Oaxaca -- Cenote Ponderosa, Quintana Roo -- History: Visits to Cacahuamilpa -- Tecoman Project, Colima -- Explorations in Hidalgo -- Boreholes and Zapatistas: Chiapas 1998 -- Cartoon: Blindcat Research Team -- Obituary: Rob Parker

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 22, May 1997

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Authors' addresses -- Mexico News -- Deep Pits Lists -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- History of Mexican Speleology to 1992 -- Sistema Cheve 1995 -- Past Explorations in Tequila, Veracruz -- 1995 Tequila, Veracruz, Expedition -- 1996 Ejido Jacinto Pat Diving -- Zongolica, Oaxaca, Winter 1995-1996 -- Cuachalalate Cave, Jalisco -- Caving in Northern Coahuila -- Cueva de Santa Cruz, Oaxaca -- Cerro Grande 1995-1996 -- Sotano de Los Tres Ojos Verdes -- Ridgewalking in Xilitla -- Caving in the Sierra Madre Oriental, SLP -- Pihuamo River Caves, Jalisco -- The Coahuila Highlands -- Cerro Blanco, Chiapas -- 1995 Rio Ruerto Expedition -- Three Cenotes -- Blankanche (reprint) -- Book Review: Proyecto Cerro Rabon -- Book Review: Murcielagos de Nuevo Leon

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 21, May 1995

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Deep Pits of Mexico List -- History of Huautla Exploration -- Pena de Salazar -- Zacaton -- The 1994 San Agustin Expedition -- Caverns and Peoples of Northern Yucatan (history) -- Sotano de Alfredo -- Sotano Brillante - M'Expe 93 -- Sierra Mixteca Alta -- Underwater Discoveries in Quintana Roo -- Obituaries: Sheck Exley and Ian Rolland -- Authors' Addresses

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 20, October 1993

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Authors' addresses -- Mexico News -- Deep Pits of Mexico List -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Proyecto Cheve Expedition 1993 -- Deepest Karst Conduit System -- Cueva del Mano -- Lava Tubes of the Suchiooc Volcano -- Tampumacchau Cave, Colima -- La Sima del Chikinibal -- The Tepetlaxtli System, Puebla -- The Underwater Caves of Quintana Roo -- The Infiernillo Sump Revisited -- Diving in Quintana Roo: Three Reports -- The Cave at Bolonchen (history) -- Searching for the Big One at Xilitla -- Proyecto Iztaxochitla -- More Discoveries in the Cuetzalan Area -- Cuea de las Abejas Africanas, Colima -- Reconnaissance in Chihuahua -- The Cave that Runs through the Mountain

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 19, August 1992

  Bill Mixon

  Contents: Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- Deep Pits of Mexico List -- Excursions in Arroyo Grande, Chiapas -- Cueva del Tecolote Expeditions -- Cueva Cheve and Sierra Juarez -- Proyecto Montemayor -- Sotano de Lutevio -- Cave Diving in Mexico -- Santa Ana '90 Expedition -- The British Black Holes Expedition -- Sotano de Paso Real, Jalisco -- Obituary: Rolf Adams -- Directory of Mexican Caving Groups -- Authors' addresses

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 18, January 1991

  Patricia Kambesis

  Contents: Mexico News -- Cave Lists -- Acatlan Revisited -- Resumidero El Borbollon -- Discoveries in Pozo de Montemayor -- 1990 Excursion en Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan -- Chilchotla 1987: Australian Expedition to Mexico -- Caves of the Chiapas Highlands of Southern Mexico -- Sistema Naranjal -- Proyecto Espeleologico Cerro Rabon: Cerro Rabon 1989 -- Nita Ka Expedition 1988-89 -- 1990 Cueva de Agua Carlota Expedition -- Hydrogeology of the Sierra Juarez -- Projecto Papalo 1989 -- Speculations in Speleology: Sistema Cuicateco - The Inside of a Mountain -- Infiernillo 1989 -- Tecolote 1989 -- An Optimum Sleeping Bag System -- Return to Golondrinas -- Book Reviews -- Obituary for Philippe Rouiller -- Directory of Mexican Caving Groups -- Contributors

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 17, December 1988

  Carol Vesely

  Contents: Mexico News -- Deep Pits of Mexico -- Long and Deep Caves of Mexico -- The World's Major Caves -- The Huautla Project: The Nanta Connection -- The Huautla Project: The 1988 Huautla Expedition -- The Huautla Project: NSS Certificate of Merit Award -- The Huautla Project: Huautla: The Movie -- The Huautla Project: Nita Ka -- The Huautla Project: Vine Cave and Pena Colorada Canyon -- Proyecto Papalo: Birth of an Area -- Ocotempa -- Proyecto Espeleologico Purificacion: Sistema Purificacion - Camp 1, 1988 -- Proyecto Espeleologico Purificacion: Cueva del Tecolote - 1987 Expedition -- World Depth Record Broken in Mexico -- Cenote Sac Actun - The White Cave -- The Connection Dive -- Proyecto Cerro Rabon -- Mexpe 88: Quebec Expedition to Sierra Negra -- The Revenge of Chac: 1988 in Tabasco -- Tolantongo: The Through Trip -- 1988 Italian Explorations in Guerrero -- La Fantastica Gruta de Yaax-Nik -- Chiapas: The French and Italian Explorations -- Sierra Zongolica Recon -- Los grandes Abismos de Mexico -- Tepeyollotli -- Subterraneo -- European Vertical Techniques -- Letter to the Editor -- Mexican Caving Groups -- Contributors List

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 16, August 1987

  Terri Treacy Sprouse

  Contents: Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves of Mexico -- Nanta-Huautla Tie-In -- Chilchotla '85 -- Caving in Tabasco -- UNAM Expedition to Veracruz -- Chiapas: The Dutch Expedition -- Belginan Explorations at Zoquitlan -- Underwater Caverns of Quintana Roo -- Sotano de Ocotempa -- Sea Caves of Loreto -- Camp Challenger: PEP 1986 -- Camp V: PEP 1987 -- Cueva de la Llorona -- Cueva del Tecolote -- Book Reviews

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 15, December 1985

  Peter Sprouse and Terri Treacy Sprouse

  Contents: Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves of Mexico -- Xilitla Project Report -- Resumidero de Toxin -- Proyecto Espeleologico Purificacion -- Exploration in Hidalgo -- Directory of Mexican Caving Groups -- Huautla Connection -- Camping Beyond Sumps -- Deep Cenotes -- Sotano de San Marcos -- Tenerias, Guerrero -- Reviews -- Letters -- Index to Activities Newsletters Nos. 1-15

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 14, September 1984

  Dale Pate, Peter Sprouse, and Terri Treacy Sprouse

  Contents: Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves of Mexico -- Sea Caves of Punta Banda -- Sotano de Vasquez -- Cave Dwelling Rhomdia -- News from Belize -- Pena Colorado -- Gruta del Precipicio -- Cueva de la Tia Rosa -- Huautla Project -- Mexican Cave Biology -- Dos Aguas Expedition -- Sumidero San Bernardo -- Zoquitlan 33 -- Plaza de Gallos -- Book Reviews

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 13, September 1983

  Duwain White and Bill Mixon

  Contents: Mexico News -- Long and Deep Caves of Mexico -- Explorations in the Purificacion Area - 1982 -- Huautla 82-83 -- Sotano de Las Coyotas -- Zongolica Project - 1983 -- Reconnaisance to the Huautla Resurgence -- Cueva del Tunel, Veracruz -- Deep Pits of Mexico -- Nita He -- The Legend of Boruhuitz -- Sotano de Las Calenturas -- Cueva Ayockal -- Grutas de Tolantongo -- Upstream in Tolaltongo -- Resumidero del Pozo Blanco -- Book Review -- Letter

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 12, April 1982

  Duwain White

  Contents: Mexico News -- Project Report: Huautla '81 -- Project Report: Sistema Purificacion -- Project Report: Sierra de Guatemala -- Project Report: Tilaco Area -- Long & Deep Caves of Mexico -- Progress at San Bernardo -- An Improved Ropewalker -- Caves of the San Miguel Doline -- Exploration of Boca del Rio Apetlanca -- Sump Diving in Carrizal -- A Piezoelectric Lamp Ignitor -- Caves of El Rancho Minas Viejas -- Zongolica: 1980-1981 French Expedition -- Deer Tracks in Cueva de los Pajaros -- AMCS Mass -- Composite Diving Tanks -- The San Agustin Sump -- Caves of the Sierra de El Abra

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 11, December 1980

  Terri Treacy and Dale Pete

  Contents: Mexico News -- International News -- Long and Deep Caves of Mexico -- Xilitla Karst: Project Report -- Sistema Huautla: Project Report -- Tilaco: Project Report -- Sierra de Guatemala: Project Report -- Purificacion Area: Project Report -- A Eulogy to Dr. Federico Bonet Marco -- Golondrinas... Otra Vez! -- Recent Biological Discoveries in Mexico -- The Piloztoc Connection -- Unstudied Karst Areas of Mexico -- Unstudied Karst Areas of Mexico -- Caving in Western Mexico -- The Exploration of Sumidero de Oyamel -- Across the Sima Grande -- AMCS Cave Map Symbols -- The Caves of Cuesta Colorada -- Sumidero de San Bernardo -- Short Penetration Sump Diving -- La Silleta -- Computer-Drawn Passage Walls -- Book Review -- Letter-Carta -- Traduccion de Editorial

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 9, Winter 1979

  Bill Stone

  Contents: International News -- Longest & Deepest Caves in Mexico -- Proyecto Espeleologico Purificacion -- The Agua de Carrizo Expedition -- Brinco Rescue -- Stranded on the Bottom of Hoya de las Guaguas -- Sump Diving -- The Deepest Through Trip -- The Discovery of El Sotano -- A Journey to Conrado Castillo -- A Word from Our Publisher -- Sima Zoquiapan -- Edigertorial

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 10, July 1979

  Peter Sprouse and Terri Treacy

  Content: Mexico News -- International News -- Long and deep caves of Mexico -- Yucatan … by bicycle! -- Sierra de Guatemala -- Nacimientos -- 1979 San Agustin Expedition -- Discovery in Cuetzalan -- Cuetzalan: Spring 1979 -- Sotano del Buque -- Cueva de Xocotlat -- Sistema Purificacion -- Letters to the Editor -- Book Reviews

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  AMCS Activities Newsletter, No. 8, May 1978

  Bill Steele and Bill Stone

  Contents: International News -- The Ten Longest Caves in Mexico -- The Ten Deepest Caves in Mexico -- The Diamante Story -- The First Push: Sotano de Agua de Carrizo -- Sima de las Fantasmas -- Huautla Expedition Report -- Underground Camps for Deep Caves -- Zoquitlan: Return to the River Caves -- Down to the Sump in Pena -- Brinco Update -- Return to Salas -- Diving the Nacimiento del Rio Sabinas -- San Joaquin -- A Grand Tour of Mexican Pits -- Cuetzalan in 74 -- Cuetzalan in 77 -- Cuetzalan in 78 -- AMCS Publications List -- Vertical Extent: Editorial

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  Association of Mexican Cave Studies newsletter, Index to Volume 1, 1965

  Association for Mexican Cave Studies

  Index to Volume 1 (1965). Open Access - Permission by Publisher