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Monitoring Network TM-71

Driny cave
(Slovakia)

Site: Driny cave
Country: Slovakia
Coordinates: N 48°30'1,77''
E 17°24'12,37''
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Gauge count: 3
Position: Male Karpaty Mts., cadastre of Smolenice village
Geological situation: lower Cretaceous limestones of Vysoky nappe
Observed
fault 1
Driny 1
Course of inclination: 290 ° / Sklon: 70 °
Installation date: 12/2005
Observed
fault 2
Driny 2
Course of inclination: 110 ° / Inclination: 70 °
Installation date: 12/2005
Observed
fault 3
Driny 3
Course of inclination: 40 ° / Sklon: 75 °
Installation date: 12/2005
Coopering institutions:
  • GÚ SAV (http://www.geol.sav.sk)
  • ŠGÚDŠ Košice (http://www.geology.sk)
  • Správa slovenských jaskýň (http://www.ssj.sk)
  • References:
  • Briestenský, M. (2009): Microdisplacements analyses in the natural underground spaces (Western Slovakia area). Proceedings 17th Conference on Engineering geology and Forum Young Engineering Geologists, Zittau, 07. to 10. May 2009, 385-387.
  • Briestenský, M., Stemberk, J. (2008): Micromovements monitoring in caves of western Slovakia. Slovenský kras, 46/25, 77-83, (In Slovak).
  • Briestenský, M., Stemberk, J. (2008): Increased radon gas occurrence in relationship with fault displacements in Driny Cave. Speleofórum, 27, 117-119, (In Slovak). (download)
  • Briestenský, M., Košťák, B., Stemberk, J., Petro, L., Vozár, J., Fojtíková, L., 2010: Active tectonic fault microdisplacement analyses: a comparison of results from surface and underground monitoring in western Slovakia. Acta Geodynamica et Geomaterialia v. 7, NO. 4 (160), 387-397.(download)
  • Briestensky, M., Thinova, L., Stemberk, J., Rowberry, M. D., 2011: The use of caves as observatories for recent geodynamic activity and radon gas concentrations in the Western Carpathians and Bohemian massif. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 145, No. 2–3, pp. 166–172. (abstract)
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      Situation of gauge