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Cave communities and the future

  • Chapman, Phil
    • Journal of the speleological society of Korea
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    • no.4
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 1996
  • Caves abd the life they contain face constant pressure from a worldw demand for cement. hydro-electric power and land for building a agriculture. The 8th International Congress of Speleology held in Kentu two years ago passed a resolution on behalf of the IUCN "Cave Speci Group" which called for "...biological surveys of threatened caves. mos in the tropics, and ecological studies to solve specific managem provlems on the causes of endangerment and how these can be remov or mitigated". This final article in the "Cave Life" series explains the n for an ecological approach to cavelife conservation.

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Canterbury Hill Cave, Collingwood

  • Cody, Ashley
    • Journal of the speleological society of Korea
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    • no.7
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    • pp.9-10
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    • 1998
  • This is but a brief description of a cave which, although well known to local inhabitants, appears to be unknown to the N.Z.S.S. It is reputed to be one of several caves in this region, but we have so far been unable to continue our prospecting here as fully as is needed. The cave is in no way unique nor of an outstanding nature; being within an isolated remnant of a much younger limestone which appears to have once extensively overlain the old Paleozoic basement rocks of the Aorere valley region. It seems probable that it is in the same limestone as the well-known Te Anaroa tourist cave, at Rockville near Collingwood, and that of the Brown River caves south of Bainham.(omitted)

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Moa Bone Caves in Aorere Valley

  • Haast, Julius
    • Journal of the speleological society of Korea
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    • no.7
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    • pp.11-14
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    • 1998
  • 1. Stafford's Cave, named by the miners because a former visitor, Mr. Stafford, broke his leg in it, is the most northern of the three caves. The entrance lies concealed in the undergrowth, but is otherwise wide and open. A steep conical shaft leads down for a depth of about 80 ft from the floor of the cave; at the bottom, rammed in between the two walls, lies a great block of limestone below which a rivulet streams forth, flowing through the cave, which runs from east; in the cave it is joined by a little tributary.(omitted)

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Natural Scenery and Caves of Huanren in Northeastern China

  • Soh, Dea-Wha
    • Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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    • no.69
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2005
  • The mountains and rivers in Guilin are famous for their beauty; the pines and rocks on Huangshan Mountains are well known for their magnificence. And now, another famous scenic zone that shall be one of the wonders of the world located in remote area of Northeast of China appears quietly, and it attracts lots of tourists and makes them reluctant to leave. That is Huanren, a Manchu county, which is famous as miraculous place.

SPELEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF KAMCHATKA OBLAST

  • Ha, William R.lliday
    • Journal of the speleological society of Korea
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    • no.5
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    • pp.53-55
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    • 1997
  • In September 1996 I spent 8 days in Kamchatka Oblast of Silberia, speaking at the institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry in Petropavlovsk and participating ina field excursion to the 1740 and 1975 lava beds of Tolbachik volcano. By international standards, the caves of these flows are small. But recently it has appeared that variations in chemistry and gas content of pahoehoe basalts makes profound variations in their lava tube caves. Thus it is important to look at as many speleoliferous regions as possible. This trend continued at Tolbachik.(omitted)

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Origin and Development of the Buddhist Rock Cave Temples of India - in Relation with Hinduism, Jainism, Ajivika - (인도 불교석굴사원의 사원과 전개 - 힌두교, 자이나교, 아지빅파의 관련과 함께 -)

  • Lee, Hee-Bong
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.129-152
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    • 2008
  • Early Buddhist rock cave temples of India, in spite of being an origin of Buddhist temples, has little been studied in Korea. After field studies and an interpretation of their forms in conjunction with religious life, precedent theories are supplemented and refuted as follows. Starting from the 2nd century B,C., Buddhist ascetic disciples digged residential rock caves, called vihara, for protection from monsoon rain and hot weather, A typical arrangement was settled -a courtyard type, with 3 side rows of tiny one-person bedroom and a front veranda with columns. Also digged were Chaitya caves, in line with viharas, to worship, which is the tumulus of Buddha's relics. I suggest that the original type of chaitya a simple circle cave with a stupa, suitable for circumambulating ceremonies. I refute the existing theory presenting Barabar caves of Ajivika as a chaitya origin, featuring empty circular room without a stupa. I also interpret a typical apsidal plan as being a simple result of adding a place of worshipping rites in front of the stupa. Enclosing columns around a cylindrical stupa is a result of reinforcing both the divine space and circumambulating ceremonies, with elongation toward hall. Finally the chaitya came to have a grandeur apsidal plan with high vault ceiling nave and a side aisle as in Western cathedrals with large frontal horseshoe arch windows. The Buddha image, which had become a new worshipping object, was integrated into the stupa and interior surface. First the stupa and then the statue was introduced to residential Viharas. Therefore, I suggest that the vihara should be renamed as 'chaitya' as a worshipping place, by establishing statue rooms without bedrooms at all. The functionally changed vihara is similar in form to a 'rectangular type of chaitya', little known and developed in different routes. A columned inner courtyard gradually becama an offering place, like Hindu mandapa, Buddhist caves ware changed to a kind of Tantric and Hindu temple by means of statue worshipping offering rituals.

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