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The International Journal of Speleology is the official journal of the Union Internationale de Spéléologie since 1978 and was founded in 1964. It is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, international scientific journal that publishes research and review articles concerning all sciences involved in karst and caves, such as geology, geomorphology, hydrology, archeology, paleontology, (paleo)climatology, cave meteorology, (geo)microbiology, environmental sciences, physics, chemistry, mineralogy, etc. IJS is published three times per year.
Articles are open access at http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following services: Directory of Open Access Journals, ISI Thomson Services (Science Citation Index-Expanded including the Web of Science, ISI Alerting Service, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences), Bibliography & Index of Geology (GeoRef, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EarthScienceWISE (Oxmill Publishing), EBSCO publishing, Geobase, Speleological Abstracts (UIS), Ulrich’s Periodical Directory ™, BIOSIS Zoological record, SCOPUS (Elsevier), and SCImago Journal and Country Rank.
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SPECIAL ISSUE IN PROGRESS: Volume 54, issue 3 (2025)
Current Issue: Volume 54, Issue 1 (2025)
Articles
Counter-intuitive links between cave genesis and subaerial stream dynamics in the Têt valley–Lachambre network, eastern Pyrenees, France
Stéphane Jaillet, Gabriel Hez, Marc Calvet, Magali Delmas, Edwige Pons-Branchu, and Yanni Gunnell
- Links between cave passages and fluvial terraces are not a simple altitudinal relationship
- The longitudinal profiles of the terraces are ten times steeper than the underground profiles
- New U/Th ages and published 26Al/10Be burial ages are faced on the same low-gradient cave passage
- This cave passage is active during MIS 6, MIS 4, and MIS 2, and records several alluvial cycles
- Caution is needed when using caves as tools to quantify valley incision
Cave minerals of the 21st century: A 2025 review and update
Bogdan P. Onac
- List of cave minerals of the world updated
- 54 new minerals added
- Volcanic caves and lava tubes contributed the most minerals to this update
Cyanobacteria and algae from Chýnov and Koněprusy caves (Czech Republic)
Michaela Wipplingerová, Jan Pokorný, and Jan Kaštovský
- First phycological study of lampenflora in two open Czech caves
- Localities are dominated by Trebouxiophyceae/Chlorophyceae and filamentous cyanobacteria
- Diatoms, Streptophyta, Xanthophyceae and Euglenophyta are accompanying groups
- Molecular methods have revealed several new species for this type of habitat
