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<h1>Question Mark list conventions</h1>
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<p>This page is somewhat outdated. For the current 21st century QM methods,
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where we store QMs in the survex files, see
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<li><a href="qmentry.html">QM data and cave descriptions</a>
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<li><a href="newsurvex.html#tickqm">Entering the QM data</a>
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<li>Only if really keen: <a href="../troggle/scriptsqms.html">QMs - the fourfold path</a>
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<p>The format for question mark lists is QM identifier, Quality Grade, Area
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indicator, decription of QM. The QM numbers themselves are in the format
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Discoverer identifier, Year of discovery, Cave identifier, serial number.
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<p>[Archaic: If
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you look at the html, you will find that the nearest survey station (without
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its "<cavenumber>." prefix) is included in an html comment for almost all
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leads.]</p>
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<p>In general, an unpushed QM will have a link from its QM number in the
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cave description file to the list (generated by a perl script), and a link from the list to the relevant point in the
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description. If there is no link, it means that I can't yet work out where the
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QM is in the description, or the description doesn't yet exist :-).</p>
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<h2>Discoverer identifiers</h2>
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<dt>A</dt>
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<dd>ARGE</dd>
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<dt>B</dt>
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<dd>Groupe Spéléo de Clerval - Baume les Dames </dd>
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<dt>C</dt>
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<dd>Cambridge University Caving Club</dd>
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<h2>Quality grades</h2>
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<dt>A</dt>
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<dd>A fine QM - git down there and look. </dd>
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<dt>B</dt>
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<dd>Not so promising, or requiring some effort (eg. a climb) </dd>
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<dt>C</dt>
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<dd>Pretty cruddy, or good but very hard to get to.</dd>
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<dt>D</dt>
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<dd>A dig- only possible to continue if loose rocks or soil are removed.</dd>
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<dt>V</dt>
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<dd>An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed</dd>
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<dt>X</dt>
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<dd>A high, wet or unsafe-looking aven unlikely to be climbed</dd>
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<dt>?</dt>
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<dd>No-one writing this list actually knows!</dd>
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<p>Note that the quality grades are assigned by the explorers at the time, and
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that subsequent discoveries may mean that the grade is optimistic, since the
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lead may now drop into passage which wasn't then explored. Also, different
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explorers have different ideas, or different waist sizes - one man's "A-lead"
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may be another's "C-lead" :-(</p>
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<ul id="links">
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<li>Back to <a href="https://camcaving.uk/">CUCC Home page</a></li>
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<li>Back to <a href="index.htm">Expedition Intro page</a></li>
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<li><b>Main Indices:</b>
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<li><a href="infodx.htm"><b>Index</b> to Expo</a> information pages</li>
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<li><a href="areas.htm">Description of CUCC's area</a> and split to subareas</li>
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<li>Full <a href="indxal.htm">Index to cave descriptions</a> in area 1623</li>
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<li>List of (links to) <a href="pubs.htm">published reports and logbooks</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><b>Pictures:</b>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="gall0.htm">Text only Index</a></li>
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<li><a href="gallery/0.htm">Index pages (with thumbnails)</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>Table of <a href="folk/index.htm"><b>members</b> of CUCC expeditions</a> 1976-present</li>
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