That TED talk is mainly about the Tapuis in Venezuela and the discovery of one of the largest caves in those quartzite mountains. Very nice. The speaker, Francesco Sauro, is a member of the Italian group La Venta, which explores caves all over the world, supported, I gather, by resulting articles, films, and books. They have been active in Mexico, and the AMCS sells several of their books. See http://www.mexicancaves.org/other/otherpubs.html
Sauro is one of the authors of a nice article in the September 2013 NSS News about the same Tapui and cave that are featured in the TED talk. https://caves.org/nss-business/publications/NSS_News/2013/September_13.pdf Some of the photos in it are the same as ones in the talk. If you aren't an NSS member, you're SOL. A number of Mexico and other articles by members of the La Venta group are at http://www.laventa.it/en/pubblicazioni The last five articles there are about the Tapuis. Much of this material is in Italian, however. A nice coffee-table book about the environment of Tapuis, including the extensive caves, is Marek Audy's "Brány do Ztraceného Svĕta," no doubt difficult to find in the US. But a PDF of the book is at http://audy.speleo.cz/bocas.pdf, worth browsing for the photos, even though their resolution is poor in the PDF. An excellent and free PDF in English is "Venezuelan Tepuis: Their Caves and Biota," available at http://www.academia.edu/3462814/Venezuelan_tepui_their_caves_and_biota My review of that is in the same NSS News. If you don't want to log in to download the PDF of the book, you can read it by just scrolling down on that page. --Mixon ---------------------------------------- Q: Why is the universe here? A: Where else could it be? ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: a...@mexicancaves.org or sa...@mexicancaves.org _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
