12MB PDF - Association for Mexican Cave Studies
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compilcJ Ly Peter S. SprouseAUSTRIAEuropean cavers are continuingto make pushes in the upper reachesof the amazing Lamprechtsofen. APolish expedition has reached threedifferent points higher than 1000meters: +1004, +1005 and +1014 meters.Work in these upper portionsrequired a three week bivouac. Includingthe 10 meters below the entrance,this makes the system 1024meters deep.FRANCE(Source: Paul Courbon)A major river has been discoveredin Gouffre des Vallon des Soufirs above the famous Fontaine de Vauclusenear Forcalquier. The Vaucluse Springitself has been the focus of speleologicalinterest for some time, havingfirst been dived in 1898 to -23 meters.The most recent dive was in 1967, whena robot diver, the "Telenaute", stoppedin a narrow passage at -106 meters,still going down. The spring has anaverage flow of 29 m3jsec.In the Vallon des Soufirs, blastingin a fissure at -30 meters led tothe discovery of a 700 meter meanderwith a 10 l/s stream. At -150 metersthe stream tumbles down a 103 metershaft, followed by other shafts droppingto the 600 meter level. Here alarge river, "Le Collecteur", swellsthe flow to 100-200 lis. This riversumps out, but several unexplored pitsmay provide a bypass. If so, Frenchcavers may be able to drop the 220meters to the Vaucluse Spring.4A diving attempt in the GouffreBerger in September 1978 succeeded inincreasing the depth from -1141 to-1148 meters.USA(Source~Paul Courbon)Wyoming's Fossil Mountain IceCave has been the scene of recentsignificant breakthroughs. Cavershave surveyed 2530 meters of passagewith a vertical extent of over122 meters. Good leads blowing aircontinue upward, toward a plateau250 meters higher. In early June1979, Chris Albers and Warren Andersonentered the cave but were haltedby an ice blockage in a smallcrawlway following the second drop.Undoubtedly significant discoverieswill be made later in the season.(Sources: Warren AndersonNSS NEHS)The length of West Virginia'sOrgan Cave has finally been settled,after years of speculation. Oftenreferred to as the Incredible ShrinkingCave, the D.C. Grotto spent 1-1/2years computerizing the survey datato produce a surveyed length of 57,376meters. This makes it third longestin the U.S. and eighth in the world.(Source: D.C.Speleograph)
Mapping efforts in the same areaof West Virginia have also sent severalcaves climbing up the charts.The Hole, in a remapping project byWVACS and Pittsburgh cavers, topped33.6 kilometers in March, with a lotof passage remaining. CulversonCreek Cave, also being resurveyed byWVACS, now stands at 22.7 kilometers.In McClung's Cave, a new entrancehas stimulated mapping activities,bringing the length up to around 24kilometers. The Friar's Hole Systemsurvey coordinated by Dug Medvillestood at 45.8 kilometers in earlyJuly. Current projects include excavatingnew entrances.(Sources: Bill Falvour,Dug Medville,NSS NEWSJewel Cave, the South Dakotamaze cave explored primarily by Janand Herb Conn, recently passed 100kilometers in length. Thus thereare now five caves in the world over100 kilometers long.(Source: NSSNEWS)In California, the Bigfoot Cavesurvey totaled up to 11,651 metersat the end of the 1978 season. Thispushed it past Lilburn's Cave, formany years California's longest.(Source: NSSNEWS)The World's 1000 meter systems1. Complexe de la Pierre Sainte-Martin, France2. Systeme Jean Bernard, France3. Gouffre Berger, France4. Schneeloch, Austria5. Sirna GESM, Spain6. Lamprechtsofen, Austria133212981148108610741024Note:The depth of Austria's Hochlecken-Grosshohle, previously listed asbeing 1022 meters, has now been adjusted to 890 meters.(Source: Paul Courbon)5
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compilcJ Ly Peter S. SprouseAUSTRIAEuropean cavers are continuingto make pushes in the upper reachesof the amazing Lamprechtsofen. APolish expedition has reached threedifferent points higher than 1000meters: +1004, +1005 and +1014 meters.Work in these upper portionsrequired a three week bivouac. Includingthe 10 meters below the entrance,this makes the system 1024meters deep.FRANCE(Source: Paul Courbon)A major river has been discoveredin Gouffre des Vallon des Soufirs above the famous Fontaine de Vauclusenear Forcalquier. The Vaucluse Springitself has been the focus of speleologicalinterest <strong>for</strong> some time, havingfirst been dived in 1898 to -23 meters.The most recent dive was in 1967, whena robot diver, the "Telenaute", stoppedin a narrow passage at -106 meters,still going down. The spring has anaverage flow of 29 m3jsec.In the Vallon des Soufirs, blastingin a fissure at -30 meters led tothe discovery of a 700 meter meanderwith a 10 l/s stream. At -150 metersthe stream tumbles down a 103 metershaft, followed by other shafts droppingto the 600 meter level. Here alarge river, "Le Collecteur", swellsthe flow to 100-200 lis. This riversumps out, but several unexplored pitsmay provide a bypass. If so, Frenchcavers may be able to drop the 220meters to the Vaucluse Spring.4A diving attempt in the GouffreBerger in September 1978 succeeded inincreasing the depth from -1141 to-1148 meters.USA(Source~Paul Courbon)Wyoming's Fossil Mountain Ice<strong>Cave</strong> has been the scene of recentsignificant breakthroughs. <strong>Cave</strong>rshave surveyed 2530 meters of passagewith a vertical extent of over122 meters. Good leads blowing aircontinue upward, toward a plateau250 meters higher. In early June1979, Chris Albers and Warren Andersonentered the cave but were haltedby an ice blockage in a smallcrawlway following the second drop.Undoubtedly significant discoverieswill be made later in the season.(Sources: Warren AndersonNSS NEHS)The length of West Virginia'sOrgan <strong>Cave</strong> has finally been settled,after years of speculation. Oftenreferred to as the Incredible Shrinking<strong>Cave</strong>, the D.C. Grotto spent 1-1/2years computerizing the survey datato produce a surveyed length of 57,376meters. This makes it third longestin the U.S. and eighth in the world.(Source: D.C.Speleograph)
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