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| Badino, G.; De Vivo, A.; Forti, P.; Piccini, L. | The Puerto Princesa Underground River (Palawan, Philippines): some peculiar features of a tropical, high-energy coastal karst system | Philippines |
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| Forti, P. | What will be the future of the giant gypsum crystals of Naica mine? | Mexico |
Institutul de Speologie 'Emil Racovita' [Bucharest] : Theoretical and Applied Karstologyvol 6 (1993)
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| Forti, P. Benedetto, C. & Costa, G. | Las Brujas Cave (Malargue, Argentina): An example of the oil pools control on the speleogenesis. pp. 87–94. The influence of the oil pools and their fluids over the speleogenesis of limestone areas was proposed only recently for the region of the Guadalupe Mountains (New Mexico). A new demonstration of this has been found in the Las Brujas cave (Malargue, Mendoza Province, Argentina), which is the most famous and the only partially prepared for the tourism in the country. The organization of a joint-program between the Italian Speleological Society and the Argentina Institute of Speleological Research made the scientific exploration of this cave possible. Thanks to the detailed morphological analyses of the hosted speleothems and cave minerals it was possible to reconstruct the complex speleogenetic evolution the cave underwent, which started with the upwelling of fluids full of hydrogen sulphide from an oil pool. In the present paper, after a short geographic and geolithologic sketch of the karst area, the speleogenetic steps for the Las Brujas cave are presented and discussed. |
Institutul de Speologie 'Emil Racovita' [Bucharest] : Theoretical and Applied Karstologyvol 15 (2002)
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| 7-26 | Forti, P. | Speleology in the Third Millenium: Achievments and Challenges Men have visited caves for a long time, but speleology started about 20 000 yr BP when the human frequentation of caves was no longer “accidental”. The development of caving activities may be subdivided into three periods: prehistory (in which no written report exists), protohistory (in which documentation is available but speleology is not yet that of today) and history (which conventionally started with E. A. Martel). Nowadays caving activities are split into several branches which may be grouped in four categories: explorative, scientific, social and documentary speleology. In the present paper after a short overview on the development of caving activities from prehistory until present day the challenges and goals for the third millennium are outlined, the main problems speleology will have to face being: • exploration of the ice caves in Antarctica and of the volcanic caves in the space; • scientific multidisciplinary investigation of special cave ecosystems; • extensive search for new drinking water supply and new principles in medicine; • environmental protection and sustainable tourism. |