Selected Caves & Karst of Australia

Compiled by:
Ken G. Grimes,
Consultant Geologist,
Regolith Mapping,
RRN 795 Morgiana Rd., HAMILTON, Vic. 3300, AUSTRALIA

Mailto: regmap1@ozemail.com.au

This CD was originally put together to supply information and photos of selected caves and karst areas in Australia for distribution during an overseas trip in 2002. It has been growing ever since.

In order to avoid copyright problems with other people's photos etc, the content is generally restricted to to those karst areas and topics I have worked in myself. Where I have used other people photos these are credited on the individual photos.

The CD-ROM contains a number of directories which have photos, diagrams and selected papers (in .PDF format). I update it every so often to add new areas, or new photos and maps. There should be an Index HTML file in each subdirectory which provides information and annotated thumbnails of the photos and other files that are in that directory. However, if I am in the process of adding new directories when your version was burnt to CD you may find some areas that are not linked into the main menu system below.

This is version v 3.07, 10-05-2006

The main contents of this CD are:

SoftRock and Syngenetic Karst

Papers on Softrock Karst: Papers, Posters, photos and maps of softrock and syngenetic karst and caves in Australia.

Gambier Karst: A set of pages with photos and reports on the soft-rock Gambier Karst of South Australia and Victoria.

A set of web pages on the soft-rock Gambier Karst Region (KG Grimes, 1998)

Nullarbor Karst (directory - in preparation)

HardRock Karst (mainly tropical Australia)

Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)

Christmas Island Poster A PDF file: Caves and Karst of Christmas Island, KG Grimes, 2001.

Christmas Island Karst. A PDF file of a paper in Helictite v37(2). KG Grimes, 2001.

Photos of karst and caves

Northern Territory Karst (Monsoon to semi-arid karsts - Gregory Karst, Katherine area, etc.)

Barkly Karst Region (Semi-arid North Australia)

Chillagoe Karst Area (Humid tropical monsoon towers in North Queensland)

Fanning River Karst (Sub-humid tropical karst on moderate dips in north Queensland). Some of the caves have spectacular views of a Devonian fossil reef.

Borders Rivers Karst region. (Temperate east Australia; on the Queensland - NSW border. Only karren and cave etchings are described here)

Tropical Karren: Photos (and some text) of karren (small scale solution sculpturing) from Tropical Australian karsts
See also the pages on Gregory Karst Region, Barkly Karst Region and Chillagoe Karst in the Hardrock Karst section.

BioThems: Speleothems influenced by biological action (tufas, twilight-zone effects, etc.)

Karst Hydrology

Student Notes and Papers on Karst Hydrology

Pseudokarst (Volcanic Caves)

Pseudokarst index

A set of web pages on Volcanic caves in Victoria (KG Grimes, 1998)

Posters and reports on sub-crustal, and other, volcanic caves.

Helictite: (This area is an image of the Helictite web site - as of February 2006)
Helictite is the Journal of Australasian Speleological Research. Published by the Australian Speleological Federation.
Because of difficulty with long filenames, Macintosh machines may have problems running it from this CD.
Note that some parts of this web site are still being constructed. For the latest version, please visit it online at http://home.pacific.net.au/~gnb/helictite/ .

Cave Surveying - hints & tips

The Art of Computerised Cave Mapping (.PDF file) This is a revised (2000) version of a paper published in the Proceedings of the ASF Conference, Quorn, 1997.

Cave Surveying Poster (.PDF file) A poster on the art of Sketching detail in Caves. Prepared by KG Grimes for the January 2001 ASF conference in Bathurst.

K. G. Grimes, my personal details, and a list of my recent publications.
With links to PDF versions of some of them.

Australian Karst and Pseudokarst Areas

Click the map for a larger view.