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Announcement of Topical Session at the
Geological Society of America 2008 Annual Meeting
Houston, TX, October 5-9

The application of speleothems to studies of paleoclimatology, paleoenvironmental change and paleohydrology has greatly increased in the past decade due to the increased analytical speed and resolution available, as well as the need to generate precisely dated records of past environments.
Their use as proxies of past terrestrial environmental change includes published records of rainfall and temperature, vegetation dynamics, and atmospheric circulation such as tropical cyclones. Speleothem parameters analyzed to obtain these proxy records include speleothem calcite growth rate, trace elements, stable and (more…)

Message from Olivier Vidal
This message to inform you that more than 900 European cavers already registered to Vercors 2008, 5 months before the event. This congress will be the Speleological European event that will enable to gather every cavers in Europe. If you are not yet registered or if your club/organisation is not, you can take advantage of the new preferential registration fee at 48 euros for the full week (29 euros - reduced fee) that will end the 31st of March 2008 :
http://vercors2008.eu/registration.htm#registernow
Don’t miss it, Vercors will be the most enjoyable speleological event cavers were expecting for a long time.
Best Speleological Regards for this Easter weekend from the whole FSUE Bureau and V2008 Organisation Comittee,
See you soon in Vercors underground.

News by Stefano Masserini

The activity in Fa 7 (Cima dei Foppazzi - Premolo - Bg - Italy) has been suspended for the difficulties to reach the entry, the end of the thaw must be waited. In 2007 two new branches have been explored: Gasteropoli, a beautiful series of pits that go back to the principal way to - 200 and The Wall that it begins to -150 and it goes straight down with two beautiful pits of 80 and 85 meters. Follows a 30 and then a cranny of few centimeters… the fund of this branch to -354. The principal way has brought us in a discreet dimensions active meander. This with some small pits it reaches -410 in a little passage where is necessary to be enlarged and where a little area and a curve are seen beyond. The air tide is always beautiful strong. The relief developed is 1.150 meters, almost all vertical. For the G. S. Valseriana Talpe Stefano Masserini.

Traslated by Annalisa Basili

News from Michele Tommasi traslated by Annalisa Basili
Extraordinary exploratory novelties from the “Abisso del Corno” on the Asiago Plateau.

Protagonists the speleos of the GSM - Malo (VI) and obviously, the great abyss.
The abyss “Corno” reaches now -620 mt of depth around. We are stopped above a pit esteemed around 100 mt.

The exploration report, here: http://www.speleomalo.it/news/

The “Antonio Núñez Jiménez” Foundation for Nature and Humanity, the Cuban Society for Speleology and the Montané Museum of Anthropology are pleased to invite you to the III INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CAVE ART, to be held on
November 17 to 22, 2008, in the Conference Hall of the “Antonio Núñez Jiménez” Foundation, located at: 5ta. B No. 6611 entre 66 y 70, Miramar, in the beautiful city of Havana, Cuba, on November 17 to 22, 2008. (more…)