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THE PETRALONA CAVE.

TWO WORDS ABOUT.

The bejewelled with stalagmites and stalactites Petralona Cave has
been developed on the western side of the limestone Katsika mountain
(~700 m height) and 300 m above sea level. The Cave was spotted in
1959 by the inhabitant of the adjacent village P (more…)

Place: Vienna, Austria.
Date: 2007-04-15 to 20.
Organisation: Commission of Karst Hydrogeology and Speleogenesis of the International Union of Speleology and the Karst Commission of the International Geological Union.
Contact: Mario Parise. Tel: +39-080-5929587. Email: m.parise@ba.irpi.cnr.it
Web: http://www.cosis.net/.
EGU: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007/
Notes: For the first time there will be a session on karst geomorphology at the EGU General Assembly. The deadline for the abstracts is January 15th. The abstracts must be sent via the EGU web site.

Place: Karst Research Institute, Postojna, Slovenia.
Date: 2007-03-14 to 18
Organisation: Karst Research Institute (Slovenia) and KWI (United States).
Contact: The KRI contact is Tadej Slabe (slabe@zrc-sazu.si), the KWI contact is Dr. David Culver (dculver@american.edu).
Web: http://www.karstwaters.org/timeinkarst/tikannouncement.htm.
Notes: The idea of the symposium is simple one - to examine what we know and what we can infer about the ages of caves, of karst landscapes, and of the organisms that inhabit them. This work is often scattered in (more…)

Place: Sosnowiec-Wrocław, Poland.
Date: 2007-03-19 to 26
Organisation: Department of Geomorphology, University of Silesia and Zoological Institute, University of Wrocław
Contact: Andrzej Tyc.
Department of Geomorphology, University of Silesia
ul. Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
Tel. +48 (32) 3689289 or Mobile +48 607 974 736
Email: atyc@us.edu.pl
Web: http://geomorf.wnoz.us.edu.pl
Notes: The Speleological School – an international meeting with 30 year long history and 24 editions linked with the name of its founder and scientific director - late Professor Marian Pulina. It bring together classical karst and cave studies with exploration of glacier caves. The 25th Speleological School entitled “Karst and Cryokarst” will be a joint meeting of the Commission on Glacier Caves and Cryokarst in Polar and High Mountain Regions of the UIS and Karst Commission IGU Commissions and also the 8th GLACKIPR Symposium.