Ah, an Iranian cave book. That reminds me of one of the classic titles on the Florida Speleological Society library: Blind White Fish in Persia, which was really about artificial underground aqueducts called quanats, and whether these ca 2000-year old channels had existed long enough to allow the evolution of blind, white fish. (I don't remember whether they did or not.) My next favorite title was Ore Deposits of the Western States (which reminded me of a book being read by Flaky Foont in an R Crumb comic, Shoe Stores of the World.)
Roger Moore GHG In a message dated 07/16/08 13:05:57 Central Daylight Time, tbsam...@infionline.net writes: I can't recall the name of the book, (but I recommended it to Larue,) on travel in Iranian Kurdistan with some stuff on caves there.... I think in the Zagros Mtns.. lots of caves, some (I seem to recall) with Neanderthal sites. (Also early agricultural/emmer wheat sites). T -----Original Message----- >From: Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> >Sent: Jul 16, 2008 11:23 AM >To: Cavers Texas <texascavers@texascavers.com> >Subject: [Texascavers] caves of Iraq > >That publication from Berlin is not really a survey of the caves of >Iraq, but just an expedition report on a Kurdish-German caving project >in part of the Kurdish area in northeastern Iraq in 2007 (the only >part of the country where it might be sensible to go caving these >days). It is volume 26 of the Berliner Höhlenkundliche Berichte. It >is, like all the series, in English. This one has abstracts in French, >German, and what I assume are both Arabic and Kurdish. > >That series of bulletins has a lot of interesting stuff, including >three volumes that are the best available survey of the caves and >karst of Africa. Other volumes cover caving expeditions to unusual >places. Some of the volumes are spectacularly wonkish, such as one >about the caves of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The >longest known cave there is 305 meters long, and the deepest is 86 >meters deep. Nevertheless, the author has found, mostly by literature >searches, material on 147 things of speleological interest (including >some man-made caves). Even the bibliography is heavily annotated, and >the whole thing contains 512 footnotes. See www.speleo-berlin.de. -- >Mixon >---------------------------------------------- >You may "reply" to the address this message >came from, but for long-term use, save: >Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu >AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com >For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com > http://home.infionline.net/~tbsamsel/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
