Tag: caves
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Video for ESCONI June 2025 General Meeting – “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas”
The June 2025 General Meeting was held on June 13th, 2025 via Zoom. Our speaker was John A. Moretti of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. His topic was “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas“. Summary from John Moretti New discoveries in…
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ESCONI June 2025 General Meeting – June 13th, 2025 – “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas”
The June 2025 General Meeting will be held at 8:00 PM CDT on June 13th, 2025 via Zoom. Our speaker is John A. Moretti of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. His topic is “New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas“. Since its…
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ESCONI October 2024 General Meeting – October 11th, 2024 – “Hoyo Negro: A Spectacular Natural Trap on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula”
The ESCONI October 2024 General Meeting will be held on October 11th, 2024 at 8:00 via Zoom. The topic of the meeting is “Hoyo Negro: A Spectacular Natural Trap on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula”. It will be presented by Jim Chatters, who has studied human history here in the Americas for many years. Here is an…
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Divers in Mexico’s Underwater Caves Get a Glimpse of Rarely Seen Artifacts, Fossils and Human Remains
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about the underwater caves of Mexico. They call them cenotes and these particular caves are located in the Yucatán Peninsula. They date to a few million years ago and preserved remnants of the Mayan culture and sometime fossils of extinct animals. The underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula are a…
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Giant Cave of Prehistoric Art Has Been Hidden Since The Stone Age
Science Alert has a story about the discovery of cave art in Spain. The art is dated to about 24,000 years old. It was found on the walls of a cave at the Cova Dones site near Spain’s Mediterranean coast. The cave has been known by locals for many years, but the art was somehow…
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Video for ESCONI June 2023 General Meeting – “Using geophysics to capture Earth burps and other processes during flow through karst conduits”
The topic for the ESCONI June 2023 General Meeting was “Using geophysics to capture Earth burps and other processes during flow through karst conduits”. Our speaker was Andrew Luhmann Assistant Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Wheaton College, in Wheaton, IL. Karst aquifers are important water resources that are susceptible to…
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PBS Eons: The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about large cats from ancient Eurasia. A mysterious, large feline roamed Eurasia during the last ice age. Its fossils have been found across the continent, and it’s been the subject of ancient artwork. So what exactly were these big cats?
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Kids’ fossilized handprints may be some of the world’s oldest art
LiveScience has an article about what may be the oldest art ever found. 200,000 years ago on a high plateau, children squished their hands and feet into a sticky mud floor of a cave. In a paper published in the journal Science Bulletin, the authors argue this should be considered “parietal” art, which is art that…
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Largest Crystals in the World
Description of exploration of the Crystal Cave of Giants. The explorer, George Kourounis, has other photo galleries as well. From the site: … The crystals themselves are made of selenite which is crystallized gypsum, the same material used in drywall construction. Except these crystals formed over a span of about half a million years in…
