</head> <body bgcolor = "#000000" text = "#ffbe60" link = "#ffce58" vlink = "#c0a870"> <center><table width = "900"><tr><td> <center> <a href = "cave.html">Main Caving Page</a> <a href = "involved.html">Getting Underground</a> <a href = "cavepics.html">Cave Pictures</a> <a href = "colors.html">Colors in Caves</a> <a href = "airmens.html">Airmen's Cave</a> <a href = "cavelinks.html">Caving Links</a> <a href = "home.html">My Home Page</a> </center> <pre> </pre> <center><font size = +4>Caving and Speliology Links</font></center> <pre> </pre> <b> <p><font size = +2>Caving and Cavers</font></p> <p><a href = "http://www.caves.org">The National Speliological Society</a></p> <p><a href = "http://www.caver.net/megalink.html">Cavernet Megalinks.</a> Hundreds of caving links. Many are expired. It's kind of like. . . cave exploration. This looks good. . . no, dead end. How 'bout this?</p> <p><a href = "http://www.utgrotto.org/"> University of Texas Grotto of the NSS</a></p> <p><a href = "http://texascavers.com/">Texascavers Mailing List.</a> This gives instructions on how to join the list. It's not limited to cavers in Texas.</p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = "http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/showcave.html">The United States Show Caves Directory.</a> As turists have become more conservation-minded and rip-off savvy, show caves have improved. This site has clickable state maps and links to show cave Web-sites so you can easily add show caves to your vacation itinerary. Follow the link on this page to Cave Photography. It's a remarkably good discussion.</p> <p><a href = "http://cavern.com/">The National Caves Association</a> has information on cave geology and show caves.</p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <pre> </pre> <p><font size = +2>General Information on Cave Geology</font></p> <p><a href = "http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/USGSNPS/cave/cave.html">USGS Cave Geology Overview</a></p> <p><a href = "http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/jeca/thompson/contents.htm">Geology of Jewel Cave</a> in South Dakota. Jewel Cave is a limestone cave and most of what is given here is true for all limestone caves and cave formations. The site gives an overview of cave formation and specific descriptions of common kinds of cave formations.</p> <p><a href = "http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/index.html">Virtual Cave.</a></p> <p><a href = "http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/student/geo/ggtc/toc.html">Geology of the Austin Area.</a> This page links to detailed descriptions and cross section images of each geologic formation in the Austin area.</p> <p><a href = "http://www-sop.inria.fr/agos-sophia/sis/DB/database.html">World Cave Database.</a> This page has information on the explored depths and lengths of caves around the world.</p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <pre> </pre> <p><font size = +2>Speleothems and Speleothem Geology</font></p> <p><a href = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helictite">Wikipedia Article on Helictites</a> has an excellent Caverns of Sonora fish-tail photo.</p> <p><a href = "http://www.wiu.edu/users/mflam/cave/poolphotos.html">Cave Pool Speleothem Gallery</a> has images and descriptions of formation of webulite, pool meringue, shelfstone, pool fingers, chenille spar, and pool spar.</p> <p><a href = "http://www.speleonics.com.au/jills/pastpapers/helicat/">Cataloguing Helictites and other capillary-controlled speleothems,</a> an online article giving physical descriptions of various kinds of helictites. It argues strongly for formation via conduction of solution to endpoints via capillaries in the helictite.</p> <p><a href = "http://moonmilk.volcano.org/moonmilk/">An article on moonmilk</a> from Moore's <i>Speleology - Caves and the Cave Environment.</i></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <pre> </pre> <p><font size = +2>Cave Fauna and Biospeliology</font></p> <p><a href = "http://www.texasento.net/cave.htm">Texas Cave Critters</a> has links to images and research articles on biospeliology.</p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> <p><a href = ""></a></p> </b> </td></tr></table></center> </body> </html>