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High tail hall twilight cavern6/21/2023 Note that only a limited selection of biological terms and geological - lava cave term have been included in this glossary. 11, July 1998, the official publication of the Newcastle and Hunter Valley Speleological Society, then revised and additional words include during August 1998 for publication in the proceedings of the Australian Speleological Federation’s 22 nd Biennial Conference January 1999. The publication of this glossary of terms, marks the culmination of 11 years of research on the definition of words used by speleological people in Australia.įirst published in "NEWCAVES CHRONICLES". As an interest point, the origin (history) has been included after some word definitions. In general, very few definitions have been duplicated word for word from any source as it was often found that a combination of descriptions best suited the meaning of a word. They included many colloquial terms not listed at all, therefore a new meaning was written by the author. There are also quite a few words used among speleologists which vary in meaning to that in the common English language dictionary. In general the reference publications listed (at the end of this glossary) were used as the main references because it was felt that they contained the most acceptable meanings. A large number of publications and articles were used to cross reference the meanings of words because it was found that many definitions varied between publications. Common terminology and colloquial terms used throughout the speleological fraternity.Īuthors note.
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