Most Popular Papers *
Monitoring air fluxes in caves using digital flow metres
Claudio Pastore, Amir Sedaghatkish, Eric Weber, Nicolas Schmid, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, and Marc Luetscher
- Low-cost and lightweight digital flowmeter tested for the automated monitoring of air fluxes in caves
- Numerical modelling reveals inhomogeneous velocity distribution in a cave passage
- Recommendation for the positionning of instruments in air streamlines
A speleogenetic history of Novoafonskaya Cave in the Western Caucasus
Olga Chervyatsova, Sergey Potapov, Jonathan Baker, Dmitry Gavryushkin, Victor Polyak, Matt Heizler, Sergey Tokarev, Sergey Sadykov, Roman Dbar, and Yuri Dublyansky
- Small-scale karstification by hydrothermal waters occurred in Miocene – Middle Pliocene
- The main volumes of the cave formed by mixing corrosion (Late Pliocene – Middle Pleistocene)
- The cave was affected by SAS during its emergence from the phreatic zone after ~400 ka
- Evolution of the cave was affected by sea level fluctuations and the tectonic uplift
The dissolution and conversion of gypsum and anhydrite
Alexander Klimchouk
A world review of fungi, yeasts, and slime molds in caves
Karen J. Vanderwolf, David Malloch, Donald F. McAlpine, and Graham J. Forbes
Dispersion of artificial tracers in ventilated caves
Claudio Pastore, Eric Weber, Frédéric Doumenc, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, and Marc Lütscher
- Artificial CO2 was injected in ventilated karst conduits (caves and mines), to assess the airflow
- Geometrical conduit parameters, air velocity, and tracer dispersion were also carried out
- The 1-D advection-dispersion model was compared with measured breakthrough curves
- The theory of dispersion is also compared with dipersion inferred from field data
- BTC tailing may stem from dead-flow zones that enhance aerosol deposition
Role of hypogenesis in the evolution of karst in the Taurus Mountains Range, Turkey
Serdar C. Bayari, Naciye Nur Özyurt, Lütfi Nazik, Koray A. Törk, Noyan İ. Güner, Emrah Pekkan, and Pınar Avcı
- Evaluation of the geodynamic history is essential to assessing the hypogene karst processes
- The carbonate-hosted secondary ore deposits are associated with hypogene karstification
- Kırkgöz cave system, Antalya Travertine Plateau, and Obruks are hypogene karst products
- Groundwater’s noble gas and carbon isotope signals indicate ongoing hypogene activity
- Earth-tidal pumping can be a potential flow driver for hypogene karstification
4D flow pattern of the longest cave in the Eastern Alps (Schönberg-Höhlensystem, Totes Gebirge)
Lukas Plan, Eva Kaminsky, Pauline Oberender, Clemens Tenreiter, and Maximilian Wimmer
- Speleogenesis of a 156 km long and 1061 m deep Alpine cave system is studied
- Arrangement of passages at two slightly inclined planes is confirmed as speleogenetic phases
- Morphological observations reveal a reversal of flow-direction through time
- According to current hydrological conditions, a dual flow is proposed
- Unlike other karst massifs in the NCA, sediments support autogenic recharge for Totes Gebirge
Klimchouk’s Impact on the Development of Speleogenetic Models for Castile Evaporites: West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, USA
Kevin W. Stafford
- Klimchouk's impact on speleogenesis in the Permian Basin
- Characterization of evaporite karst in the Delaware Basin
- Speleogenetic model for Castile evaporites
The world’s deepest subterranean community - Krubera-Voronja Cave (Western Caucasus)
Alberto Sendra and Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira
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