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Lithistid Demosponges of Deep-Water Origin in Marine Caves of the North-Eastern Mediterranean Sea

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Desmas-bearing demosponges known as lithistids have heavily silicified skeleton and occur typically in bathyal environments of warm and tropical areas but may be found in certain shallow marine caves.
Andrzej Pisera, Vasilis Gerovasileiou
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Deep Ocean and Caves: the Ultimate Frontiers in Tourism

open access: yesStudia Periegetica, 2023
In the ever-shrinking world, the tourism industry is looking for new spaces to explore. It is redefining the known ones and reaching for new ones, which are often located right on geographical peripheries.
Dagmara Chylińska
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Into the Darkness: Deep Caves in the Ancient Near East [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Landscape Ecology, 2017
In this paper I will present the assemblage of pottery vessels and objects of luxury dated to the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods discovered in the Zarda Cave in Western Samaria, Israel.
Freikman Michael
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The world’s deepest subterranean community - Krubera-Voronja Cave (Western Caucasus) [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Speleology, 2012
Subsurface biota extends over a wide variety of habitats that can be spatially interconnected. The largest communities of this subsurface biota inhabit cavities and are well known mainly in caves where biologists are able to have access.
Reboleira Ana Sofia P.S., Sendra Alberto
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Deep-sea sedimentary cave structures: geology or fish-made?

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
At the Central Mohns Ridge, numerous large cave-like structures were observed in deep-sea sediments at approximately 1200 and 1600 m depth. The glacial eelpout (Lycodes frigidus) was found inhabiting some of these caves, with one individual observed ...
Camilla M. Marnor   +4 more
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Deep Troglomorphy: New Arrhopalitidae (Collembola: Symphypleona) of Different Life Forms from the Snezhnaya Cave System in the Caucasus

open access: yesDiversity, 2022
The Snezhnaya (=Snow) Cave System (depth −1760 m; total length 40.8 km), located in the West Caucasus, is inhabited by distinctly troglomorphic collembolan species from several families.
Robert S. Vargovitsh
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Raise Caving—A Hybrid Mining Method Addressing Current Deep Cave Mining Challenges

open access: yesBHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte, 2022
AbstractCave mining progresses to depths exceeding 1000 m and ore bodies situated in competent and strong rock masses are nowadays extracted by different cave mining methods. Widely applied caving methods in massive deposits are block and panel caving, inclined caving, and sublevel caving.
Tobias Ladinig   +4 more
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Carbon and oxygen isotope characteristics and paleoenvironmental significance of deep karst fracture-cave fillings in Huanjiang sag, Guangxi

open access: yesCarsologica Sinica, 2022
In recent years, deep karst caves are commonly met in deep resource exploration and engineering construction. However, the deep-buried caves lead to the insufficient research on the genesis and development mechanism of deep karst caves.
Hongqi DONG   +6 more
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Cave-dwelling crocodiles of Central Belize

open access: yesInternational Journal of Speleology, 2023
We provide the results on the first systematic effort to study cave-dwelling crocodiles in central Belize. For nearly three decades, managers at Runaway Creek Nature Reserve have frequently observed crocodile tracks and trackways in caves, while ...
Jut Wynne   +9 more
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Hidden Dangers to Researcher Safety While Sampling Freshwater Benthic Macroinvertebrates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper reviews hidden dangers that threaten the safety of freshwater (FW) researchers of benthic macroinvertebrates (BMIs). Six refereed journals containing 2,075 papers were reviewed for field research resulting in 505 FW BMI articles.
Stoaks, Ralph D.
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