2002-05-26 13:58:07 +01:00
|
|
|
|
<html lang="en">
|
|
|
|
|
|
<head>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<title>Question Mark list conventions</title>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<!--#include virtual="css/main.css"-->
|
|
|
|
|
|
</head>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<body>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<H1>Question Mark list conventions</H1>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<P>The format for question mark lists
|
|
|
|
|
|
is QM identifier, Quality Grade, Area indicator, decription of QM. The
|
|
|
|
|
|
QM numbers themselves are in the format Discoverer identifier, Year of
|
|
|
|
|
|
discovery, Cave identifier, serial number. If you look at the html, you will
|
|
|
|
|
|
find that the nearest survey station (without its "<cavenumber>." prefix)
|
|
|
|
|
|
is included in an html comment for almost all leads. Now that there is an <A
|
|
|
|
|
|
href="../../handbook/survey/svindx.htm">index to the
|
|
|
|
|
|
surveys</A>, there may soon be a way to get from the QM to the relevant survey
|
|
|
|
|
|
file, but not the pictures :-(
|
|
|
|
|
|
<P>In general, an unpushed QM will have a link from its QM number in the
|
|
|
|
|
|
description to here, and a link from here to the relevant point in the
|
|
|
|
|
|
description. If there is no link, it means that I can't yet work out where the
|
|
|
|
|
|
QM is in the description, or the description doesn't yet exist :-).
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h2>Discoverer identifiers</h2>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DL>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>A
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>ARGE
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>B
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>Groupe Sp<53>l<EFBFBD>eo de Clerval - Baume les Dames
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>C
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>Cambridge University Caving Club </DD></DL>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h2>Quality grades</h2>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DL>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>A
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>A fine QM - git down there and look.
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>B
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>Not so promising, or requiring some effort (eg. a climb)
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>C
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>Pretty cruddy, or good but very hard to get to.
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>V
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>X
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>A high, wet or unsafe-looking aven unlikely to be climbed
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DT>?
|
|
|
|
|
|
<DD>No-one writing this list actually knows! </DD></DL>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<P>Note that the quality grades are assigned by the explorers at the time, and
|
|
|
|
|
|
that subsequent discoveries may mean that the grade is optimistic, since the
|
|
|
|
|
|
lead may now drop into passage which wasn't then explored. Also, different
|
|
|
|
|
|
explorers have different ideas - one man's "A-lead" may be another's "C-lead"
|
|
|
|
|
|
:-(
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p><HR>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p><ul>
|
2002-05-26 15:12:19 +01:00
|
|
|
|
<li><a href="infodx.htm">Back to main index page</a>
|
2002-05-26 13:58:07 +01:00
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
</body>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</html>
|
