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VISITING QATAR THE HARD WAY ... IN 1983
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Researchers study bone cache in Umm Jirsan Cave
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 | A Mexican Woman in Arabia
Una Mexicana en Arabia by Susy Pint
TEXT IN SPANISH
184 pages, 57 photographs in color
Price: 14 dollars |
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OF ABU RAKAH
Join Denis O'Brien and his friends from Yanbu on a visit to these picturesque rocks. What a place to camp! |
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Dave
Jenkins takes us on a tour of one of the most fascinating places in
Saudi Arabia...and finds several enticing lava tubes along the way! |
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Twice
Pulitzer-Prize winner Salopek started in Ethiopia and hopes to arrive
at the souther tip of Argentina after a seven-year walk tracing
Humanity's Greatest Voyage. |
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Prince
Sultan bin Salman introduces Saudi archaeological treasures to the
world. Is this just the tip of the archaeological iceberg? What else
will be found inside Saudi caves? |
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INTRODUCING THE GUANOMITE
RESEARCH GROUP
Scientists,
cavers and researchers have joined to study these towers of pigeon
droppings so common in Saudi caves. How old are they? Do they contain
useful information?
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JOURNEY TO THUWAL
A Visit
to Amazing KAUST University, which, in 2013, included a course on Saudi
Caves in its Winter Enrichment Program |
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BOOK REVIEW:
UNDERGROUND
IN ARABIA BY JOHN PINT
Tim
Barger reviews this new book about caves, lava tubes, camaraderie,
Bedouin, bats, wolves, jinns, sand storms and rollicking adventure
beneath the dunes of Saudi Arabia.
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REPORT:
THE
THIRD GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON GEOTOURISM,
MUSCAT OMAN
Will Saudi Arabia's marvelous Black and
White Volcanoes become the country's first Geopark?
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SEARCHING FOR LAVA CAVES ON JABAL
Q'IDR
IN THE SHADOW
OF THE BLACK AND WHITE VOLCANOES
"There were
cave entrances everywhere."
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AIN HIT'S WATER IS ANALYZED
Have these once crystal-clear
waters been polluted by Riyadh's Sewage Lake? Get the facts here!
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BATS
BELOW THE LAKE BED
LAYLA
LAKES AND THEIR WONDERS REVISITED
Karst
like you've never seen before! A 50-meter-long cave
beneath the lake.
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AIN
HEETH (AIN HIT) REVISITED, 2011
An
unexpected turn of events: what happened to this cave's previously
"crystal-clear" water?
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MAJLIS AL JINN, OMAN
Plans
are afoot to turn the world's largest sunlit underground chamber into a
Tourist Cave.
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DAHL
AL HAMAM
A
Cave in the Middle of the Busy City of Doha, Qatar. By Chris Killey
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DAHL
LUQAH
Mahmoud
Al-Shanti and The Friends of the Desert explore an ancient cave near an
ancient city on the windswept wastes of the far north.
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AIN HIT THE MOVIE
Restored
and digitalized video taken inside Dahl Ain Hit (Hith, Heet), the
historically famous Saudi Cave and site for diving in the desert.
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THE
GPS: FRIEND OR FOE OF SAUDI CAVES?
With
a GPS, speleologists can relocate even the smallest cave entrance in
the biggest desert...but this device also allows vandals to do the same
resulting in broken stalactites, trash and graffiti in previously
virgin caves.
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THE
15TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SPELEOLOGY AND 2009 NSS CONVENTION,
KERRVILLE, TEXAS
1600
cavers all in the same spot! What did they talk about? Saudi
Arabia's hundreds of kilometers of 3-million-year-old virgin caves, of
course (among other things).
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HYPOGENE KARSTIFICATION IN SAUDI
ARABIA AND JORDAN
Caves
that were formed from below rather than from above
By
Stephan Kempe et al
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CAVES, CISTERNS AND THERMS ON THE RED-SEA COAST
Proof
of Greek and Ptolemaic-Roman settlements?
By Michel Pons
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THE AMAZING SINKHOLES OF
LAYLA, SAUDI ARABIA
Their Gypsum Tufas are Unique in All the World
By Dr. Stephan Kempe
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MAKHULAH: The
tender and true tale of Makhulah the Camel as told by Qurian Al-Hajri
of Ain Dar, Saudi Arabia |
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UMM JIRSAN: LONGEST LAVA
TUBE IN ARABIA: Enormous passages, mysterious
mounds, snarling wolves, ancient bones... This cave system has it all! |
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BIRDS IN ARABIAN CAVES:
Michael C. Jennings, Coordinator of the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of
Arabia (ABBA), takes us on a fascinating hunt for birds that prefer to
live deep underneath the desert. |
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CAVE
MAPPING IN SAUDI ARABIA: Maps of Saudi Caves published in new
report; A Brief History of Cave Mapping in Saudi Arabia; The Joy and
Pain of Surveying Caves in Arabia.
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JEDDAH'S OUTDOOR ART:
Some of the world's finest sculptures are on permanent display--and
free--all over the city of Jeddah. |
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UNDERGROUND IN AL GREYA:
We head for the Far North of Saudi Arabia with Al Jowf''s "Friends of
the Desert." We find mud from the sky, centipedes under the
pillow, goat-and-people rescues and two intriguing caves. |
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Geocaching and caves in
Saudi Arabia: Meet Mohammad Al-Fares, author of the first
book on geocaching in Arabic. Find out what geocaching is all about and
how to hunt for geocaches in the desert caves of Saudi Arabia. |
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Vulcanospeleology in Saudi
Arabia: a new article in Acta Carsologica summarizes the
great strides made in the last few years in the exploration and study
of Saudi Arabia's volcanic caves. |
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Cave
Tourism in Saudi Arabia: Two studies show great promise for
developing Show Caves in the Kingdom. Take a look at which caves are
the most attractive! |
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Crawl
the Double Bobat: a challenging but exciting cave near Al
Kharj. Check out the great bat pictures too!
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Lava cavers gather in Tepoztlán,
Mexico for the xii International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology
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Detailed
information, abstracts, etc. on the XII International Symposium on
Vulcanospeleology
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Shiprock Cave:
"Caving in reverse" to the top of magnificent Shiprock Jebel...by Greg
Gregory.
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Roobol's Rub Al Khali:
Fifty scientists explore Arabia's greatest desert. John Roobol presents
a slide show on this amazing journey to the Empty Quarter. |
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A chat with Mexico's foremost
vulcanospeleologist, Ramón Espinasa |
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The Hibashi Report:
New SGS publication on Saudi Arabia's most famous lava cave |
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Caves of the Black and White
Volcanoes: Arabia's most spectacular volcanoes...and they
come with caves! |
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Jordan Discoveries--2005:
mummies, snakes, bones and Arabia's longest mapped lava tube |
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Caves found in a lava field
overlapping Saudi Arabia and Jordan |
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Cave Science in Saudi
Arabia: The Potential for Scientific Projects in Saudi
Arabia's Caves |
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Blow-hole Dome:
Greg Gregory conquers the howling hole |
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The Caves of Ma'aqala:
Discovery of Dahl Sultan 'way back in 1983 |
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Ain
Hith I: Erik Bjurström tells the story of the first Desert
Dives
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The Star Well: Archeological
treasures may lie beneath this ancient well. |
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Saudi
Cave makes world's "top ten" at Azores symposium on vulcanospeleology
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Complete
list of SGS Speleological Reports |
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Interview
with Will Kochinski: Joy and terror of early caving
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Curious
Cave Minerals: From arcanite to Maya Blue... how are they
connected to Saudi caves |
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Caves of Habikah
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New Dives in Ain Hit:
Six years later, the diving resumes and the cave is mapped.
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Desert Caves of Saudi Arabia:
What's inside the new Saudicaves book - and what was left out? All the
info you need to get your own copy. |
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The fascinating legend of
Hibashi Lava Tube: is it true? |
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That's-a-Nice-Name Cave:
Speleo sausages, hollow stalagmites and more! |
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Narrow Escape:
Helicopter Rescue at Um Qaradi lava-tube cave
In
Arabic
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Caves of the Lost City: First
visit to lava tubes in Harrats Khaybar and Ithnayn plus a town that
wouldn't stand still |
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THE LAVA TUBES OF HARRAT KISHB
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FIELD TRIP ONE
SGS and friends explore two
caves, find cave termites and a
sandstorm!
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CAVERS IN TRAINING
Saudi geologists are "learning
the ropes!" A picture-report
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Old Jeddah
Tour the narrow,
crooked streets of one of the world's oldest cities and marvel at the
beautiful (and functional) architecture.
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VOIDS
BETWEEN THE DUNES
Cave
adventures in the early 80s by Bruce L. Davis.
Great
pictures of the first explorations of Dahls Sukhayl and Khaliqah.
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THE ROSES OF
TAIF
Susy
Pint reveals the secret of their alluring "attar"
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The Farmer and the Bats:
based on a true story by Merlyn Tuttle
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Saudi bats: What
kind of bats are flitting around this desert country? You might be
surprised |
