CONTENTS

1. IGCP 299 report from Austrian subgroup, "Ybbstaler Alpen", Rudolf Pavuza

2. Brief report on "Climatic Change: The karst record", a KWI symposium, David A. Richards

3. Summary and achievements-- to symposium of climatic change: The karst records, Li Bin

4. Karst in North Norway ( report on Excursion, August,1996), Li Bin

5. Report from Japanese Working Group of IGCP 379, Kazuhisa Yoshimura

6. Suggestion for a typical study site: Blanca and Mijas Mts Karst, Southern Spain, Bartolome Andreo-Navarro

7. Contribution to IGCP 379: A new method of karst denudation calculation based on input of climatic data, Philippe Gombert

8. Croatian and Slovenia proposal: To what extent the carbonate solution module (Gam’s approach) reflects karst processes, Ante Sarin

9. A China-Indonesia-Austraulia cooperation plan: rainfall variations in Australia and esat Asia over the last 500,000 years from speleothem deposition, suggested by Linda K. Ayliffe

10. Suggestions for Sino-Vietnamese cooperation in IGCP 379, Do Tuyet

Part 3        Contributions

I. Carbon Cycle in Karst

1. Influence of climatic parameters in karst denudation,
   Philippe Gombert

2. Contribution of Cyanobacteria to the formation of tufa in the entrance to Akiyoshi-do Cave, Yamaguchi, Japan,
   Kazuhisa Yoshimura et al

3. Tufa in limestone areas in southern Japan,
   Kazuhisa Yoshimura et al

4. Morphological processes of polygonal karst in Pan De Guajaibon, Sierra del Rosario, NW de Cuba, Andrej Tyc

1. A 230ka record of glacial and interglacial events from Aurora Cave, Fiordland, New Zealand, Paul W. Williams

2. An indicator of paleoenviroments in desert ,margins: The Anurans near Rabat, Morocco, Mohamed Salem Ould Sabar & Patrik Michel

3. Climate change over the past 135,000 years in the Namib Desert, Namibia: Proxy data, Klaus Heine

4. The potential of speleothems in the reconstruction of southern Africa paleoclimates--an example from Lobatse II Cave, Botswana,
   Karin Holmgren

5. Late Quaternary paleoclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean---Stable Isotope Systematics of Soreq Cave speleothems, Bar-Matthews et.al

6. Submerged speleothems from the Bahamas: Sea level, paleoclimate and Uranium-series disequilibria, David A. Richards et al

7. Chemical kinetic, speleothem growth and climate,
   Wolfgang Dreybrodt

8. Complex stratigraphic series in Belgian caves: correlation with the paleoclimatic variations during Middle and Upper Pleistocene,
   Yves Quinif

9. Calibration of speleothem stable isotopes against historical records: a Holocene temperature curve for North Norway,
   Stein-Erik Lauritzen

10. Grow rate, gray level and luminescence of stalagmite laminae,
      Dominique Genty et al

11. Speleothem luminescence proxy records of annual rainfall in the past, evidence for "the Deluge" in speleothems, Y.Y. Shopov et al

12. U-Pb dating of Quaternary age speleothem, David A. Richards et al

13. Isotopic composition of paleoprecipitation and paleogroundwaters from speleothem fluid inclusions, P.F. Dennis et al

14. Isotopic composition of present-day alpine speleothems from Trentino (NW Italy): a key for paleoclimatic interpretations in ancient speleothems, Andrea Borsato et al

15. Isotopic study of cave carbonates from Moravian karst, Czech Republic, Jaroslav Kadlec et al

Part 4        Book Review

M.M. Sweeting: Karst in China

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