I. Physical and Chemical Behaviours of Karst Dynamic System

Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate minerals in H₂O-CO₂ solutions in turbulent flow: the role of the diffusion boundary layer and the slow reaction H₂O+CO₂=H^- +HCO₃^- Liu Zaihua and Wolfgang Dreybrodt

II. Carbon flux in epigenic karst processes

1. Carbonate deposition/dissolution cycles and CO₂ flux in the Pleistocene
   John E. Mylroie

2. The geochemical cycle of CO₂ in a carbonate rock area, Akiyoshi-dai Plateau Kazuhisa Yoshimura, Youji Inokura

3. Soil CO₂ concentrations and climate in a humid subtropical environment
   Rudi H Kiefer

4. Concentrations and controls of soil CO₂ in sandy soil in the North  Carolina coastal plain, R.H.Kiefer & R.G.Amey

5. Carbon flux monitoring at Hawkins River site , KY ,USA , C.G.Groves

6. Carbon flux at karst of Robertson and John Evans Glaciers, Martin Sharp

7. Rates of chemical denudation and CO₂ drawdown in a glacier- covered alpine catchment, Martin Sharp,Martyn Tranter, Giles H. Brown, Mark Skidmore

8. Spanish group for IGCP 379, J.C.Canaveras

9. Cave air carbon dioxide concentration and microclimate parameters in Candamo cave (N.Spain), M.Hoyos, V.Soler, S.Sanchez-Moral,
   J.C.Canaveras, E.Sanz-Rubio

10. Microclimate parameters in a mass-tourism cave: Nerja cave (S.Spain),
    M.Hoyos, V.Soler, J.C.Canaveras, S.Sanchez-Moral, E.Sanz-Rubio

11. Soil as regulating system in karst K.E.Pustovoytov

12. Relationship between carbon cycle in karst areas and CO₂ source-sink of atmosphere---case of Guizhou karst, Li Bin, Yuan Daoxian

13. .The CO₂ regime of soil profile and its drive to dissolution of carbonate rock,   Xu Shengyou, He Shiyi

III. Deep source co₂

1. Deep CO₂ contribution to karst processes from examples of French mediterranean karsts, M.Bakalowicz

2. Geological aspects of modern carbon cycle in mainland China, Yuan Daoxian

IV. Paleoclimatic reconstruction with karst records

1. Annually laminated sequences in the internal structure of some Belgian
   stalagmites --- importance for paleo-climatology,
   Dominique Genty& Yves Quinif

2. Banded soda straws and geochemical records of climate,
   Ian.J.Fairchild

3. Carbonate diagenesis in ice, Ian J.Fairchild

4. Paleoalpine karstification in the longest paleokarst period in the western Carpathians  (Slovakia), Juraj Cincura &Eduard Kohler

5. The division of geological age of a stalagmite in Panlong cave in Guilin
   Lin Yushi, Zhang Meiliang, Qin Jiaming

6. Studies on oxygen isotope thermometry of cave sediment and paleoclimatic records,Qin Jiaming