[SWR] September Meeting of the PBSS

2013-09-09 Thread MATTHEW ORMSBY
All,The next meeting of the Permian Basin Speleological Society is Tuesday September 10th, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. We are still at Murray's Delicatessen in Midland, Texas. Murray's is located at 3211 West Wadley in Midland. We meet in the back room. Come early & have dinner--we have the room starting

[Texascavers] Hang Son Doong

2013-09-09 Thread Mixon Bill
Thanks, DirtDoc, for posting that link to the 2010 expedition report. I don't have a lot of patience for people who create those blog-style web sites that scroll continuously without page breaks, but at least that one seems to have been created with software that provides a printable versio

Re: [PBSS] Possible sinkhole / tunnel

2013-09-09 Thread Bill Bentley
This is not a cave...not even a mine. What happened to safety concerns? Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Jacqueline Thomas wrote: >___ >PBSS mailing list >p...@caver.net >http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pbss >

Re: [PBSS] Possible sinkhole / tunnel

2013-09-09 Thread Jacqueline Thomas
According to the radio interview, the woman/wife/mom whose lawn collapsed said something to the effect of, "If I had a helmet I'd go in." Maybe we can show up with an extra helmet? Jacq. On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Lori Hales wrote: > All: > Let's go for it. Nobody goes to the trouble to dig a

[Texascavers] Son Doong - Prepping fo Tours

2013-09-09 Thread dirtdoc
World's Largest Cave, Son Doong, Prepping For First Public Tours   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/07/son-doong_n_3873341.html   x   Yes, that IS interesting.   Some of you know that we have been over there the last two year

Re: [Texascavers] Lava tubes of the El Malpais

2013-09-09 Thread Josh Rubinstein
Diana Northup gave a talk at convention on the fungal community (read DNA of dirt) in El Malpais. Here is the abstract. Fungal Communities Present in New Mexican Caves: Are Geomyces spp. Naturally Present? Diana E. Northup1 *, Nicole A. Caimi1 , Kaitlyn J. Hughes1 , Debbie C. Buecher 2 , Jesse

[Texascavers] Lava tubes of the El Malpais

2013-09-09 Thread caverarch
One of our new Greater Houston Grotto members (sorry, I'm so bad with names...) spoke of caving in the lava tubes of the El Malpais National Monument. Here is a link to a recent study on the biology and management of those caves. The author reports the discovery of seven new species and the c

Re: [PBSS] Possible sinkhole / tunnel

2013-09-09 Thread Lori Hales
All: Let's go for it. Nobody goes to the trouble to dig and shore up a tunnel for no reason. Might lead to something.   Lori From: Bill Bentley To: Kerry Lowery ; Jacqueline Thomas ; p...@caver.net Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [PBSS

texascavers Digest 9 Sep 2013 15:49:47 -0000 Issue 1839

2013-09-09 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 9 Sep 2013 15:49:47 - Issue 1839 Topics (messages 22607 through 22618): Re: Possible sinkhole / tunnel 22607 by: George D. Nincehelser 22608 by: Louise Power Requesting Candidates for NSS Secretary-Treasurer 22609 by: NSS Announcements TCR

[Texascavers] Water Sinks book now free PDF

2013-09-09 Thread Mixon Bill
At my urging, Phil Lucas has put the book "Caves and Karst of the Water Sinks Area," which I posted a good review of back in July, at Lulu.com as a _free_ PDF file, in addition to the $95 printed hardcover version. I imagine that will be a lot more popular. Go to lulu.com/shop and search fo