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21st INTERNATIONAL KARSTOLOGICAL SCHOOL "CLASSICAL KARST"
HYPOGENE SPELEOGENSIS (BETWEEN THEORY AND REALITY…)
Postojna, June 10th to 14th 2013
organised by
KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE ZRC SAZU
Since 1993, International Karstological Schools have been organised,
covering many aspects of karst research. The basic idea of the School
has been to present the state of the art in selected topics and
promote discussion between participants via set of lectures, poster
sessions and related field trips to the area of Slovene Classical karst.
In the last decade, hypogene speleologenetic processes have attracted
attention of speleological community. Many previously epigenic caves
have been reinterpreted as hypogene. Some basic publications on the
topic have triggered doubts and debates because similar cave patterns
and wall rock features considered as hypogene can be formed also under
other conditions. Therefore, the aim of the 21th IKS is to present
basic hydrogeological and chemical principles and processes of
hypogene speleogenesis as well as geological conditions leading to it.
Special attention will be paid to the geometry of cave passages and
wall rock features which are often interpreted as hypogene, but could
have as well formed otherwise, such as in meteoric flood-water
conditions or by dissolution in contact with sediment.
The participants will get answers to the following questions:
o what is the hypogene speleogenesis,
o which are typical and necessary geological conditions for the
hypogene speleogenesis,
o which physicochemical processes are important for the hypogene
speleogenesis
o which forms are characteristic only for the hypogene speleogenesis
o how to distinguish hypogenetic and epigenetic caves
The work will include
o Invited keynote lectures covering wide range of topic
o Selected lectures by other participants
o poster presentations
o fieldwork
The topics will cover
o hypogene speleogenesis (hydrogeology, chemistry, geology and forms)
o similarities and distinction between hypogenic and epigenic caves
o hypogene speleogensis in gypsum
o speogenesis in artesian basins
o thermal and hydrothermal caves
o minerals related to hypogene speleogenesis
Who should be interesting in participating:
Senior and junior karst researchers, students, managers of karst
resources and other people interested in karst phenomena.
Program outline
Day
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Monday, June 10th
Sessions
Poster session
Ice-breaker
Tuesday, June 11th
Sessions
Field trip
Wednesday, June 12th
Sessions
Field trip
Thursday, June 13th
Whole day excursion
Gala reception
Friday, June 14th
Departure, optional field trip
REGISTRATION
The registration will be opened on February 15http://izrk.zrc-sazu.si/
en th and closed on April 30th. Registration will be only online,
payment instructions will be given on the web site. Registration fee
must be covered at registration. Link to registration and other
information will be active at the Institute’s web site starting
February 15th.
The registration fee is 125 EUR. It includes conference materials,
refreshments during coffee breaks, participation at gala reception and
at all excursions. The fee for the undergraduate students is 25 EUR.
The official language of the event is English and Slovene. The
abstracts must be submitted in English along with the registration.
The participant's preferred mode of presentation (i.e. poster/oral)
will be considered by the organiser. Selected papers will be published
in Acta Carsologica.
The Second Circular including the detailed programme of the School
will be out by May 10th, 2013.
The School is supported by:
Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO, Scientific Research Centre
SAZU, Commune of Postojna.
All the information are available at:
KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE ZRC SAZU
Titov trg 2
SI - 6230 Postojna
Tel.: (+386) 5 70 019 00; Fax: (+386) 5 70 019 99; E-mail: i...@zrc-sazu.si
Web: http://izrk.zrc-sazu.si/en
Principal contacts:
Dr. Bojan Otoničar, otoni...@zrc-sazu.si
Dr. Franci Gabrovšek, gabrov...@zrc-sazu.si
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I believe there are
15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,
181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,
231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the
universe and the same number of electrons.
—Sir Arthur Eddington
If you must know, that's 17 x 2^259.
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