PIERK / Caving Magazine
Summaries of Pierk number 4, December 1997
by: Marcel Dikstra
- Redactioneel - Editorial
- Rectificatie - Rectification. In Pierk no. 1 and 2, 1997 an error was made. The article by J. Didden on karst in Limburg was previously published in: Het Natuurhistorisch Maandblad 85/4, 1996. This reference was omitted by mistake.
- Van de voorzitter - The chairman of Speleo Nederland explains the reasons for this resignation.
- Veldwerk in grotten op Java, Indonesie - The author, biologist and caver , carried out studies on swiftlets. Some swiftlets use echo-location for navigation.
- Réseau des Anversois, Abîme de la Chawresse - A lot of work by S.C. Avalon from Belgium resulted in a new connection between parts of this classic Belgium Cave. (Previously published in Spelerpes 81)
- Jaarvergadering 1997- Ten reasons to give up caving.
- Abîme de Bramabiau - A sporting through trip in the footsteps of A.E. Martel, who first did this trip a hundred years ago..
- IJsland - Four Dutch cavers spent their summer holidays in Iceland. The visited glacier caves, ice caves and lavatubes and did some interesting cave diving as well.
- Het systeem van de Bretaye - An impression of a throughtrip in this wet and sporting Belgium cave system.
- Door het Oog van de Cycloop- A caving trip to the Vercors region in France. A known but unchcharted cave was surveyed.
- Schoonmaakactie in de Trou Nou Maulin - A description of a clean-up trip in this cave.
- Nieuwsrubriek - Caving news collected from various journals, publications and newspapers.
- Lofthellir - Second part of the Iceland story.
- Erratica, Chemoclinen en Glaciaal.... - A first classification of glacial, small erratic boulders and chemoclines found in hte Maastrichtiën marl deposits in Zuid-Limburg, Netherlands.
- Höhlenforschung in Österreich - During a caving holiday in the Tennengebirge in Austria, an extension of the Röth Wandaugen-system (ice cave) was discovered.
- Met Jan Paul van der Pas...., UIS congres.- News from the UIS committees during the 12th congress in Switzerland.
- Jaarlijkse dag van de speleologie - A seminar was held in Han-sûr-Lesse where leading Belgium geologists and cavers presented their latest work and discoveries.
- Waarom roken soms goed is voor de gezondheid - An article discussing the dangers of Carbondioxide in caves, in relation to two occurences of bad air in Belgium.
- Grottogadgets - Why do other, more experienced cavers always have caving gadgets which seem to account for the difference between you and them? Jos Burgers investigates into the mysterious realm of caving hardware.
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