洞穴學
洞穴學是一門科學的研究,研究洞穴,喀斯特地貌特徵,結構,物理性質,化學性質,歷史,生命形式和形成過程(speleogenesis)和隨時間而改變(speleomorphology)。探索洞窟有時也是休閒活動,洞穴學和探索往往相連。洞窟是一個跨學科的領域,結合化學,生物學,地質學,物理學,氣象學和製圖的知識來開發複雜的洞穴的,同時亦是不斷發展的系統。
歷史
洞穴地質和水文
地球化學石筍
洞穴製圖
洞穴生物
洞穴科學的其他領域
參考
外部連結
- Different Types of Erosion (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
- National Speleological Society (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
- The Virtual Cave (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館), an online guide to speleothems
- Biospeleology; The Biology of Caves, Karst, and Groundwater (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館), by Texas Natural Science Center, the University of Texas at Austin and the Missouri Department of Conservation
- Speleogenesis Network, a communication platform for physical speleology and karst science research
- National Cave Research and Protection Organization (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館), India
- cave-biology.org Cave biology, biospeleology in India
- Cave Biota; an evolving "webumentary", sponsored by Hoosier National Forest and Indiana Karst Conservancy
- IJS – Home Page (International Journal of Speleology) (in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish)
- Caving News (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館), Daily news and articles on caves, caving, speleology, karst and other information for cavers.