CONTENTS

• Short report on IGCP 379 meeting "Karst processes and carbon cycle " ,
  Lipu, Guangxi, China

• Report from Slovenia Group on IGCP 379 activity 1997
  
  
• Papers of the Spanish group of 379 Project (June 26,1998)
  
  
• Some considerations of natural behaviours of the carbon cycle,
  Boris Mijatovic ( Yugoslavia )

I. Carbon Cycle in Epigenic Karst Systems

• The role of chemical weathering of carbonate rocks in the geochemical Cycle of CO₂, Kazuhisa YOSHIMURA and Youji INOKURA

• Solution Ratio of limestone Tablets and CO₂ Contents in Soils of Minamidaito Island, Kazuko URUSHIBARA-YOSHINO et al

• Karst denudation in Irkutsk Region, Russia, Elena Trofimova

• The influence of the soil air P_CO2 on the chemical composition of karst spring water (Swabian Alb, SW Germany), Torsten Clemens, Claudia Müller, Martin Sauter

• Contribution of carbonate rock weathering to the atmospheric CO₂ sink, Zaihua Liu et al

• Characteristics of hydrochemical responses to environmental change in a carbonate rock Aquifer, Yuan Daoxian

• Special speleothems in cement-grouting tunnels and their implications of the
  atmospheric CO₂ sink, Zaihua Liu et al

• Karst springs in the region of Hornsund Fjord (NW Spitsbergen), Wieslawa Ewa  Krawczyk

II. Carbon Cycle in Deep Karst Systems

• Study on the Release of Deep Source CO₂ in Western China, Yang Lizheng et al

• Conceptual model of karstified oil-gas bearing reservoirs' formation according to new data on reduction sulphates by hydrocarbons and carbon cycle, A.V.Petukhov

• Tufa deposits in the Taroko Gorge limestone area, Taiwan, China,
  Kazuhisa YOSHIMURA et al

III. Paleoenvironment Reconstruction with Karst Records

• Controls on trace element (Sr-Mg) compositions of carbonate cave waters:
  implications for speleothem climatic records, lan J. Fairchild et al

• Radiocarbon and uranium-series dating of travertine, N.Horvatincic et al
  

• Palaeoenvironmental change in Java island and its surrounding areas, Kazuko URUSHIBARA-YOSHINO et al

• Speleochronology, stable isotopes and laminae analysis of stalagmites from
  southern Africa, by K.Holmgren et al

• Absolute datations of speleothems and its speleomorphological significance from Divašk a jama and Jazbina caves; Kras plateau,Slovenia, Andrej Mihevc et al.

• The Isotope Systematics of Perennial Cave Ice in Northwestern Canada, William D. MacDonald et al

• Paleomagnetic study in the Cuchillo Cura System Neuquen Province, Argentina, Barredo, S.P. et al

• Paleoclimatic reconstruction and timing of sea level rise at the end of the
  Penultimate Glaciation, from detailed stable isotopic study and TIMS dating of   submerged Bahamian speleothem, Joyce Lundberg

• Dripwater monitoring at Grotta di Ernesto (NE-Italy): a contribution to the
  understanding of karst hydrology and the kinetics of carbonate dissolution,
  Andrea Borsato

• Periodic and aperiodic forcing of water flow through sodastraw stalactites
  (Choranche, Vercors, France), Jean-Luc Destombes et al

• Road Construction Plan in the Kamenca Valley ,Slovenia, Andrej Seliskar

• Loutao, an example of success in rehabilitation of a rock-desertification karstland

• A karst geological hazard incident of Nov.11, 1997 in Zhemu village, Guilin

• Lesson from 1998 flood on Yangtze River: karst engineering problem emphasized

• Karst waters help resolving drought in Northwest China’s arid region

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