Total surveyed passage in different countries

[jason]

The paper is about the hydrological and geochemical processes that are likely to have formed the underwater caves in Florida.

[wingman]

The paper is about the hydrological and geochemical processes that are likely to have formed the underwater caves in Florida.

Hey Jason...that tropical storm data generated some nice time series models with transport lag structures...I was going to present something at the aaus meeting coming up in October in Maine but have another presentation in Seattle the same week. Am at ginnie at the moment with a couple of sondes hoping that Irene dumps some rain this way...also just beginning collecting data in stuff in and near the gulf of m south of Tallahassee. Bill

[FW]

The Nullarbor has a couple of caves over a mile, but most are less, and there are only about a dozen. My guess would be less than 10 miles total.

The Dominican Republic has a couple over a mile, and finding more every day. My guess is well over 10 miles, so far.

There are smaller caves on Bonaire, and Grand Cayman. I suspect most Caribbean islands have caves, just not yet discovered.

[Danseur]

Turks and Caicos has a few, and I'm sure MANY undiscovered. Mark Parish at Big Blue can give you more info.

[Nick Ambrose]

Thanks for the suggestions thus far. Perhaps I should try to make what I was looking for a little bit more clear... I'm interested in aggregate underwater cave survey length of caves that are primarily underwater and formed in rocks with high porosity (such as Florida, Yucatan, Bahamas, Nullabor Plain, Barbados, etc.). If there were good numbers on individual islands in the Bahamas, I could use those too.

This is by no means perfect but could be a start

http://www.caves.org/project/qrss/qrlong.htm

[Taucher-Tom]

rough estimates for:

Cuba: 50+mls
Germany: less than 5mls
Croatia and Serbia, formely known as Yugolawia (called the mother of Karst): huge potential of caves, only very few explored
what about France, Italy and Spain?

[mpoucher]

Thanks Mike. Is that for underwater caves only or does that include dry caves as well?

Jason:

Underwater only. If you need dry caves as well, Al Krause with the FSS would be your best source.

Mike