speleology


Also found in: Dictionary, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • noun

Synonyms for speleology

the scientific study of caves

Synonyms

Related Words

the pastime of exploring caves

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
Simultaneously, the Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology in Liptovsky Mikulas may not sound like a place where children would like to spend their free time, but the opposite is true.
The article ends on a funny note, explaining this has nothing to do with the Balkan Speleological Conference, to be held in Sofia in March to celebrate the 85th anniversary of organized speleology in Bulgaria.
The MF Department of Recreation was extremely receptive to partnering with us, and in our first visit they proposed the idea for the May 2010 course--a week-long outdoor skills and practices 'camp' held at the National School of Speleology in Pinar del Rio province.
The study of caves is called speleology and going into caves called spelunking.
If the narrator expresses her thanks to this "butcher-and-recorder," it is because his paleography etches the signs of memory on to an entire landscape, embarking the narrator on a speleology that stands in a chiasmatic relation to his:
However, this development project was spearheaded and directed by the Department of Speleology. This group's work in both cave systems was publicly criticized by the Cuba Speleological Society (2005) for proceeding in their development efforts without first conducting a thorough conservation study, which had been requested by the Speleological Federation of Latin America and the Caribbean.
When the self is not monstrous, it is often rendered invisible, eradicated: "That I am I cater annihilation," the body-speaker says in Harris' "Unfurled: The Pain-Body Speaks in Repose," and elsewhere, in a sequence called "speleology" (the study of caves), "amputated in the glare, I am a ghost in my own memory." In McCrae's poem "That's Entertainment," "the white//half white// The black/half white like stars are white," whiteness overwhelming blackness even when both exist in equal measure.
White (ed.), Proceeding, 15th International Congress of Speleology. Vol.
In: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SPELEOLOGY,13, SPELEOLOGICAL CONGRESS OF LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN, 4, BRAZILIAN CONGRESS OF SPELEOLOGY, 26, 2001.
Specific articles will appeal to specialists with such diverse interests as colonial and maritime history, navigation, Mayan archaeology, archaeological site formation processes, artifact conservation, cultural resource management, historic preservation, public archaeology, cultural tourism, speleology, and marine biology.
Recent observations in a remarkably dynamic, sulfide-rich, hypogenic cave in southern Mexico: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Speleology: National Speleological Society, Huntsville, AL, USA, pp.
This text is highly technical and suitable for serious students and professors with a background in biology, zoology, or speleology. Distributed by CRC Press.