Caving Papers

Contents

• Max Meth, 1998, Caving Definitions - A Glossary of Terms (13K)
• Ken Grimes, 1995, Glossary in VULCON GUIDEBOOK (13K)
• J. N. Jennings, 1985, CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (57K)
• Wolfgang Kahrau, 1972, Glossary in AUSTRALIAN CAVES AND CAVING (14K)

These papers are copyright, as specified at the beginning of each paper. They have been reproduced from larger works for non-commercial fair use by private researchers.

[Glenn's Caving Contents Page]

Links

• Extensive list of Dictionaries of cave, karst and speological terms in various languages.
   
• Glossary from the book Beneath the Mountains, Exploring the deep caves of Asturias
  by David Rose and Richard Gregson:
  • Text of Book and Glossary at the Oxford University Cave Club, UK.
  • Text of Book and Glossary at the Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Institute, USA.
   
• Glossary of Cartographic Terms in the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at The University of Texas in Austin, Texas, USA.
   
• The Caver's Multi-Lingual Dictionary translates 340 speleological terms between five languages, English, Spanish, German, French and Hungarian. Compiled by Dr. Attila Kósa.
  • The dictionary is on one 118K page at the Karst Network in Germany.
  • At the UIS Informatics Commission in Australia there is an introduction, references, other web links and acknowledgements.
  
  
• A very extensive Geology Dictionary at Jeff Iverson's Geoscience site. Jeff runs the Iverson Software Co.
   
• Iowa State University has a Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms based on the glossary in the book Earth: An Introduction to Geologic Change. Some terms have a link to an illustration and further information about the term.
   
• The Virtual Cave by Dave Bunnell is an encyclopedia of cave formations and features with lots of excellent photographs and text.