Speleology 1, January 2003

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Easegill Caverns: the Trident Nightmare Expedition Reports: Guangxi, China; Asturias, Spain The Bone Caves of the Yorkshire Dales Cave Science in Ogof Draenen and Agen Allwedd Ogof Cnwc: a new entrance to Daren Cilau National Caving Awards for 2002 Front Cover Photos: Gouffre Berger Portfolio by Andy Morse: (Shower Head / Entrance Pitch / Hall of Thirteen - see p. 13) Back Cover Photos: Unusual fault breccia in Cueva Negra by David Gibson (Explanatory text by Chris Danilewicz on p. 17)

• Comment
• A new direction for BCRA (Williams, N., BCRA Chairman) 4
• BCRA's Consolidation (BCRA Council) 5

In Brief

• Diary Dates 29
• Ripples on stalactites 5
• Hottest thermals 5
• National Cave, Karst and Mines Registry - Re-launched (Cooke, D.G., registrar[at]cave-registry.org.uk) 6
  Website at www.cave-registry.org.uk
• BCRA Science Symposium 6
• New BCRA books: 27
  Judson, D. 2003 Underground Britain: Legal and insurance issues (Cave Studies Series 12)
  Day, A.J. 2003 Cave surveying (Cave Studies Series 11)

Overseas News

Bulgaria

• The founding of the Balkan Spelaeological Union (Jalov, A.) 6

Albania

• Albania 2002 (Jalov, A.) 6

Iceland

• The Laki Expeditions, 2000 and 2001 (Wood, C.) 14

Spain

• Expedition Report: Asturias, Spain 2001 [includes a photographic study of unusual fault breccia in Cueva Negra, and the use of an Excel spreadsheet to plot the cave survey] (Danilewicz, C. & D. Gibson) 16 - 19

China

• Expedition Report: Guangxi, China 2000 (Campion, G.) 20 - 25

Features

• The Trident nightmare [re-exploration of the Upper Trident Series in Easegill Caverns, UK North, January - April 2002 by Red Rose Cave & Pothole Club] (Whitney, A.) 7 - 8
• Cave science in Ogof Draenen and Agen Allwedd [UK South Wales] (Maurice, L. & A. Farrant) 9 - 10
• Ogof Cnwc: a new entrance to Daren Cilau [UK South Wales] (France, S.) 10
• The bone caves of the Yorkshire Dales [UK North] (Murphy, P. & A. Chamberlain) 11
• Hidden Earth 2002 (Mann, P.) 12 - 13
• BCRA Photo Salon 13
• National Caving Awards for 2002 13 - 14
• The RS2000 Re-breather [as used in Cueva Culiembro, Asturias, Spain in 2001] (Stanton, R.) 20
• Cave poetry in the Haiku style (Chandler, I.E.) 30

Special Interest Groups

Also see Special Interest Groups web page.

• Cave Radio & Electronics Group's award for an outstanding contribution to Cave Radio and/or underground electronics made this year posthumously to Jean-Jacques Fauchez (citation by Rushton, R.) 14
• Cave Radio & Electronics Group: The CREG Journal 49 (Stewart, T.) 28
• Cave Radio & Electronics Group: Field Meeting 22 - 23 March 2003, Crickhowell, South Wales (Stewart, T.) 28
• Cave Surveying Group: Compass Points 28 (Stewart, T.) 28
• Special Interest Groups Further Information (Stewart, T.) 28

Book Reviews

• Gillett, J.E. 2002 Of caves and caving - A way and a life (Faulkner, T.) 26
• Beamon, S.P. (ed.) 2002 Underground mythology (Oldham, T.) 26 - 27
  [includes papers on:
  The shell grotto at Margate (Haslam, R.M.)
  Exploring water in underground mythology (Osbourne, B.E.)
  The Bohemian karst region (Matousek, V.)
  The motif of the cave in folk culture (Matousek, V.)
  Cave of the Nymphs (Cilek, V.)
  Who or what were the Knockers or the Knackers? (Beamon, S.P.)
  Mithraism - a 'subterranean' religion (Black, M.C.)]
• Chamberlain, A. & J. Williams (eds) 2002 CAPRA 4 26
  [this is an on-line journal available at www.shef.ac.uk/~capra. Topics in this issue include:
  World War II artefacts and wartime use of caves in Guam, Mariana Islands (Taborosi, D. & J.W. Jenson)
  The bone caves of the Yorkshire Dales (Murphy, P. & A. Chamberlain)
  Treasures of the Silk Road - The Dunhuang Cave documents (Hampson, K.)
  Book Review: Theopetra Cave [Greece]

Letters

• Change of title to Speleology upsets librarians (Middleton, G; Waddington, A.) 29
• BCRA/NCA Consolidation (Waltham, T.) 29
• Integrating the Special Interest Group activities into BCRA mainstream publications (Wookey) 29
• AV technology gone mad at Hidden Earth - a step too far? (Name & Address Supplied) 29

@BCRA

• Contacts List 30

What our readers say about Speleology

Speleology Issue 1. This is BCRA's new journal, replacing Caves & Caving. It says it aims to be the 'New Scientist' to Cave and Karst Science's 'Nature'. I hope not, because I terminated my subscription to New Scientist because it was so crap. BCRA have sensibly gone this route because, with volunteer labour, they haven't got the resources to compete with Descent as a super-glossy magazine; also, BCRA is refocusing itself somewhat as a cave science body rather than as a substitute for a national body. Politics over, what's it like? Basically, not bad. Articles on the re-survey of the Trident Series in Easegill, dye tracing in Ogof Draenen, a new entrance to Daren Cilau (just what the world needs), a report on the BCRA Conference, and expedition reports including diving in Asturias. Not flashy, but good solid information. Cover photo of the celebrated "Elephants' Wing" formation in the Berger. (Roberts, S., OUCC)

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