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Articles by Andy Spate
Andy Spate is a cave explorer, scientist, conservator and karst area manager. For many years he served as Karst Officer for the New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service. He first started caving assisting the late Joe Jennings surveying caves at Wee Jasper. He has been consulted on caves and karst matters in both Australia and New Zealand as well as several countries in Asia and in South Africa. Andy is the author or co-author of numerous scientific papers and other reports.
He is an Honorary Fellow of both the Australian Speleological Federation Inc and the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association Inc as well as an Honorary Life Member of the latter organisation. In 2019 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of his role in karst conservation and management.
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Thick stalagmites and thin ones – is there a conundrum?
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Early accounts of karst features in Quaternary ‘soft’ limestones in Western Australia
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Sources Of Information For Cave Guides (And Others)
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STROMATOLITES – actually microbialites
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Laterite Karst – Ken Grimes and Andy Spate
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What Books Should be in your Library?
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Did the earth move for you? Earthquakes and caves
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The green sickness – la maladie verte or lampenflora – Part 2
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The green sickness – la maladie verte or lampenflora – Part 1
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Dabbling with datums – AGD/NZGD and GDA/NZGD
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Bushfires over karst in southeast Australia, January – February 2003
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Dust, water and rock – vermiculations
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Cave mineralogy – the Second part
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I am the Compass – the art and science of navigation in the bush
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Lets talk about something other than limestone – pseudokarst
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Limestone quarries and limestone values
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Management of wild caves – an interrogative sermon in three parts
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Geology of the Wellington karst area
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Magnesite Karst – Ian Houshold
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Labouring the Point about Speleothem Growth Rates
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Two Discussions on Speleothems – with Jacqui Skinner and Phil Slater
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Lets Talk about Limestone – Part 3 – A Limestone Fairy Tale
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Lets Talk about Limestone – Part 2 – Syngenetic Karst – Ken Grimes
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Lets Talk about Limestone – Part 1
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Vegetation and Karst Processes
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Bat Staging Caves – Dianne Vavryn
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Further Dangers of Breathing – Part 3 – Carbon dioxide
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Further Dangers of Breathing – Part 2 – Histoplasmosis
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Foreword to ANDYSEZs – Motor charabanc through Tasmania …
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Carbon dioxide – getting a lift out of life!
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Introduction to crystallography
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Ruths Ramblings on Dating – Ruth Lyons
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Light – or why I am not a physicist
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The Evils of Radon – The Dangers of Breathing – Part 1