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From: Speleogenesis Network <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:07 AM
Subject: Sarma Cave became the second deepest cave in the world
Pavel Rud’ko of Krasnoyarsk (Rissia, Siberia) has reported the
success of the recent expedition of Krasnoyarsk cavers to the Sarma
Cave, Arabika Massif, Western Caucasus. The cave, previously explored
by cavers from Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk to -1570 m, has now been made
almost 200 m deeper, to reach depth of -1760m and become the second
deepest cave in the world.
The expedition led by Pavel Rud’ko has been carried out between
September 1st – October 7th, 2011. The main branch has been pushed
to -1760 m after breaking through a narrow meander at the old bottom.
Many side and ascending passages in other parts of the cave have been
also explored. The expedition performed systematic temperature
measurements, and speleobiological and microbiological sampling.
With its new depth figure, Sarma surpassed the
Illjuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya system (-1753 m), located in the nearby
Bzybsky Massif, and became the second deepest cave in the world,
following Krubera Cave (-2191 m) located in the same massif. Thus, the
western Caucasus now hosts three deepest caves in the worlds, two of
them in Arabika Massif and one in Bzybsky Massif.
Some details of geology, hydrogeology and cave locations of Arabika
can be found at
http://institute.speleoukraine.net/libpdf/Klimchouk%20et%20al_2009_The%20deepest%20cave..._ICS%20Proceedings.pdf
--Alexander Klimchouk
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15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,
468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,
631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.—
Sir Arthur Eddington
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