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Here we go with our latest round-up of news and views from around the world. If you see anything you think we might have missed, ...
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Bucklewell Cave, Avon Gorge, Bristol
When we at DB Towers received our copy of Robin Taviner's Somerset Underground Volume 1, we were intrigued to learn that one site that he ...
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Big rivers, maze caves and a Roman dog – the latest in cave research from the BCRA
A report on the big river caves of Papua New Guinea in the Nakanai Mountains and one on harvesting swiftlet nests in Sarawak by David ...
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In the News
Here we go with our latest round-up of news and views from around the world. If you see anything you think we might have missed, ...
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In the news …
Here we go with our latest round-up of news and views from around the world. If you see anything you think we might have missed, ...
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Fish, bones, ice and carbon dioxide – more cave research from the BCRA.
Reports on large cave fish from Meghalaya, archaeological sites in Scotland and Derbyshire, ice caves in Yorkshire and carbon dioxide - historically and geologically - ...
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Travels Beneath the Earth – Celebrating the UBSS Centenary
On Saturday, 9th November 2019, the University of Bristol Speleological Society brought the public facing part of their centenary year to an end with a ...
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Cave fish, cake and karst
The BCRA's 30th annual science symposium took place at Keyworth,hosted by the British Geological Survey. I attended the Saturday session and was impressed by the ...
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Can machine learning reveal geology humans can’t see?
Identifying geological features in a densely vegetated, steep, and rough terrain can be almost impossible. Imagery like LiDAR can help researchers see through the tree ...
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Evidence for past high-level sea rise
Scientists, studying evidence preserved in speleothems in a coastal cave, illustrate that more than three million years ago -- a time in which the Earth ...
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International Greenland expedition’s record-breaking trip
Researchers from four international universities have returned from an expedition to a remote area of north-east Greenland where they broke two records. The team, comprised ...
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Aveline’s Hole: A new twist in an old tale
New samples taken for DNA analysis from human bone from Aveline's Hole by Natural History Museum researchers have thrown up surprising results. Graham Mullan reports ...
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Archaeologists identify first figurative Palaeolithic cave art in the Balkans
An international team, led by an archaeologist from the University of Southampton and the University of Bordeaux, has revealed the first example of Palaeolithic figurative ...
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Ali and Co dig deep at BagPit
Pete Buckley and Ali Moody assisted by a band of Wessex diggers have had more success recently at their dig at Bagpit, on the south ...
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Uranium-series dates
Thanks to Gina Moseley we have some more dates on speleothems sampled from Hallowe'en Rift. 230TH Age (yr BP) Corrected HR1-T 215,221 +/- 2476 HR1-B ...
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Students get the chance to meet in-cave monitoring experts
Students interested in undertaking a cave-related dissertation will get the chance to talk to experts on in-cave monitoring next month. The BCRA (British Cave Research ...
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Review: Cave and Karst Science, December 2018 Issue
The December 2018 issue of Caves and Karst Science is now available. Volume 45, Number 3 carries six articles. The first is a report on ...
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Ritual protection in the Chaldon Quarries – health and safety in the 16th century
Curious chalk inscriptions on the walls of an ancient stone quarry in Surrey are being systematically recorded for the first time as part of a ...
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