2012年5月16日 · I thought cave pearls were always basically round (aka pearl shaped!) but I've recently run across some info (forget where) that suggests they can be any shape. So now I'm wondering if some stones that seemed cave-pearl-esque but weren't round (so I called them "almost cave pearls") really are...

2024年2月11日 · My first post here, I'm just after a trip into a cave in the beautiful Burren in County Clare where we found some amazing cave pearls that are covered in outward radiating calcite crystals. There are plenty of them occurring in a series of pools along a section of oxbow passage about 1m above stream level.

2024年11月12日 · Arguments, headaches and black moods are recorded in her diary as she gradually realised that for a young woman in 1912, life would mean a continuous battle for even small freedoms. This experience of the mountains represented a small ray of light in a world she would describe as being “stuck in a dark sub-terranean cave”. Exposing herself ...

2024年12月17日 · In the peak there is an event called the 9 edges where you run a route (can't remember the exact distance) and climb a route on each of the 9 edges. I'm keen to do something similar but cave related. Is there anything already known in the peak that's a worthy challenge? Or maybe like a 3 peaks...

2024年3月23日 · Most New Cave Discovered at a New Site Via a Previously Unknown Entrance, i.e. not through an extension of an existing cave Peak District Cave Exploration Prize 2023 DCA Cave Exploration Prize Winners Announced In 2024 there will be three different prize categories on offer: The winners of the main prize will receive 100m of Gleistein GeoStatic ...

2024年8月15日 · Technicality I-IV (similar to the existing cave grades) - I = easy cave, few obstacles, easy obstacles - II = Fairly easy cave, some more challenging obstacles - III = moderate cave, a good variety of obstacles that require more skill (squeezes, thrutches, traverses, ducks, etc) - IV = hard cave, many obstacles, some of a more complex nature

2017年10月1日 · Science talks by authors of The Cave Fauna of California and cavers working at Lassen National Forest, followed by a panel discussion of conservation issues will fill this symposium on 28 April 2018 at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA, from 10 am - 4 pm. Free seats available on a first-come-first-served basis.

2025年1月8日 · The caves of Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia, offer a setting to explore a novel nitrogen-driven method of cave passage modification and enlargement. These caves include some of the world's largest and longest cave systems, including Clearwater Cave, which extends over 250 kilometers, and many of these caves feature unusual ...

2024年12月16日 · Cave J also called Badger Hole is a short cave which starts interestingly, but soon ends in a sump which so far has not been passed. It is just below where the path crosses the dry river-bed above a small gorge; the stream, which has gone underground higher up, reappears from this cave. THE FOREST OF DEAN-----

2024年12月21日 · Soggy/damp unwritable logbooks was the reason we changed all the Warden caves in Fairy Cave Quarry to waterproof logbooks and pencils. Today I visited Sludge Pit and this time found it impossible to open the top bucket lid, so couldn't even access the logbook.