proceedings from the 4th scientific conference
Tále, October 5 – 8, 2003
Editor: RNDr. Pavel Bella, PhD.
© Slovak Caves Administration, Hodžova 11, 031 01 Liptovský Mikuláš, 2004 Issued and printed by Knižné centrum, publishing house, Predmestská 51, 010 01 Žilina, Printed by Dugaprint Žilina, ISBN 80-8064-201-X
Contents
Introduction
List of participants
Geology and geomorphology
- J. Kadlec – P. Pruner – H. Hercman – M. Chadima – P. Schnabl – S. Šlechta: Magnetostratigraphy of sediments preserved in caves located in the Nízke Tatry Mts.
- P. Bella: Morphosculptural planation forms of cave georelief
- Z. Hochmuth: Contribution to the genesis of small forms of cave corridors modelling in the Medzevská Upland
- J. Bruthans: Notes to the character and origin of the Dead Bats Cave (Nízke Tatry Mts.)
- J. Tulis – L. Novotný: The Bear Cave in the Slovak Paradise
- J. Činčura: Neogene levelling of relief and palaeokarst of the Western Carpathians
- B. Šmída: Quartzite caves of the Roraima table mountain in Venezuela
Mineralogy and petrography
- K. Žák – J. Tulis – H. Hercman – V. Cílek: New opinions on the formation of hemispheres from the Stratenská Cave
- J. Štelcl – J. Faimon – J. Zimák: New knowledge on the structure and development of calcite straw stalactites
- J. Štecl – J. Zimák – J. Zelinka: Natural radioactivity of rocks in the Domica-Baradla Cave System
- J. Zimák – J. Štecl – J. Zelinka: Natural radioactivity of rocks in the Gombasecká and Jasovská Cave
- J. Hlaváč – J. Zimák – J. Štelcl: “Cave soils” in the show caves of the Low and Belianske Tatras
Hydrology and geochemistry
- D. Haviarová: Preliminary results of hydrological monitoring in the Jasovská Cave, Gombasecká Cave and Domica Cave
- D. Barabas – D. Haviarová: Evaluation of reciprocal relation of several hydrological factors in connection with the distribution of waters circulation in the Jasov region during 1999 – 2002
- J. Faimon – P. Zajíček – V. Baldík: Geochemistry of dripping waters in selected caves of the Moravian Karst
- J. Faimon – L. Peška: Reaction paths in carbonate system
Speleoclimatology
- J. Piasecki – J. Zelinka – A. Pflitsch – T. Sawiński: Structure of air flow in the upper parts of the Dobšinská Ice Cave
- K. Strug – J. Piasecki – T. Sawiński – J. Zelinka: The ice crystals deposit in the Dobšinská Ice Cave
- J. Faimon – J. Štecl: Natural and anthropogenic impacts of CO2 into speleoatmosphere
- J. Faimon – P. Zajíček – V. Baldík: Correlation of soil and cave carbon dioxide
Biospeleology
- Ľ. Kováč – A. Mock – P. Ľuptáčik – V. Košel: Terrestrial Arthropods of the Domica Cave system and the Ardovská Cave (Slovak Karst) – principal microhabitats and diversity
- A. Mock – Ľ. Kováč – P. Ľuptáčik – R. Mlejnek – Z. Višňovská – V. Košel – P. Fenďa: Cavernicolous arthropods of the Važecký Karst (Slovakia)
- D. Elhottová – V. Krištůfek – A. Nováková – A. Lukešová – J. Tříska – Ľ. Kováč –A. Mock – P. Ľuptáčik: Sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the caves of the Slovak Karst
- A. Nováková: Saprotrophic microscopic fungi in the caves of the Slovak Karst National Park
- M. Lukáň – K. Rajecová – Ľ. Kováč – P. Ľuptáčik – A. Mock: Preliminary results on the terrestrial arthropod communities (Arthropoda) of the Jasovská Cave
Documentation and history
- M. Lalkovič: Caves as a category of natural heritage
- M. Lalkovič: Jaskyňa na Skalke Cave – the oldest written mention on caves in Slovakia
- P. Holúbek: Brief history and characteristics of underground spaces situated northerly from the Big Dome in the Demänovská Ice Cave
