Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Pseudokarst

Slovak Caves Administration, Liptovský Mikuláš

Slovak Speleological Society

International Union of Speleology, Commission for Pseudokarst

Teplý Vrch – Slovakia, 2004

Published by: Slovak Caves Administration, Hodžova 11, 031 01 Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

Editor: Ľudovít Gaál

Technical co-operation: Ladislav Iždinský

Adjustment: Ján Kasák – M&P Žilina, Bohuslav Kortman

Cover: Dvojvchodová rozsadlina Cave, Photo Tomasz Mleczek

Printed by Knižné centrum, Žilina, ISBN 80-8064-222-2

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Introduction

Prologue

Durch Exhalation entstandene Höhlen im Karpatenbecken - István Eszsterhás
Hot and Cold Way of Origin of the Tree Mold Caves - Ľudovít Gaál – Hiroshi Tachihara – Kensaku Urata
Speleothems in Mines – Pseudokarst features? - Rudolf Pavuza – Karl Mais
On the Finnish pseudokarsts - Aimo Kejonen
Caves in Non-Carbonate Rocks of Slovakia: List, Genetic types, Values and Protection - Pavel Bella – Ľudovít Gaál – Peter Holúbek
Horizontal Quartzite-karst Caves in Venezuela – One of the Newest Geomorphological Discoveries - Lukáš Vlček
A Digital List of Non-karstic Caves in Hungary - István Eszterhás – George Szentes
Caves of the Polish Flysch Carpathians - Grzegorz Klassek
Morphological Evolution of the Pseudokarst Forms in Quaternary Loesses of Southern Poland - a case study of BUgaj near Pinczów, Nida Basin - Jan Urban
Výzkum a dokumentace preudokrasu Broumovské vrchoviny - stav k roku 2003 - Oldřich Jenka – Jiří Kopecký
Nekrasové jaskyne v Žiarskej doline v Západných Tatrách - Peter Holúbek
Siliceous karst forms in the Lužické hory Mts., northern Bohemia - Jiří Adamovič – Petr Havránek
Le morfologie pseudocarsiche nel flysch della Valle dello Judrio (Friuli Venezia Giulia – Italia) - di Maurizio Tavagnutti
A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Moss Mites (Acarina) of several Pseudokarst Caves of the Southern Slovakia - Peter Ľuptáčik – Barbora Gaálová
Barlangok felkutatása a Korponai-hegyvidéken középkori oklevelek helynevei alapján - Dénes György
Člověk a pískovcová krajina - Vladimír Peša – Petr Jenč
Die Pseudokarsthoehle Knahyna an der Grenze der Slowakei und der Ukraine - Ján Ducár

Posters

Specific relief of ferruginous sandstones and sinters in northern Bohenia - Jiří Adamovič
Notes on the origin of strata-bound caves of the Klokočí cuesta - Honza Mertlík
Selected weathering forms and pseudokarst features of sandstones In the Bohemian Switzerland National Park - Zuzana Vařilová

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