Cave Symbols - The official UIS Symbol List

(State 1999 - voted by the national delegates)

Plan
Main Measuring Points

Section

Outline of a gallery

Underlying galleries

Too narrow continuation

Continuation possible
?

Presumed dimensions of Space

Ceiling form

Cave Symbols - The official UIS Symbol List

(State 1999 - voted by the national delegates)
Plan
Dripline
(beginning of the cave) -

Section

Profile
(arrow in line of view)

Step
(height in meters)

Pit
(depth in meters)
_ P 19 P 19

Pit open to the surface

P5

_ P5

Chimney - Chimney-Pit

+ C 15

+ + _ + _

C 15

Contourlines
(altitude in meters) 845

Gradient arrows Entrance arrow Gradient Lines Altitude above Sealevel

850

1851 m

Cave Symbols - The official UIS Symbol List

(State 1999 - voted by the national delegates)
Plan
Difference in Elevation
(height in meters) +-0 m -12 m +34 m

Section

Joint - Fault - Inclined Joint

Lake Flowing Water

Sump

Cascade Waterfall

Spring Sink

Widespread Water Inlet Seeping

Scallops - Flutes in general Direction of paleoflow

Cave Symbols - The official UIS Symbol List

(State 1999 - voted by the national delegates)
Plan
Air Draught
(with date in dd.mm.yyyy format) -

Section
17.05.1998

Ice-Snow-Firn
17.05.1998

Stalagmites

Stalactites

Sinter Curtains Pillars

Helictites Soda Straws Crystals

Sinter Pools

Flowstone Wall Calcite Moonmilk

Cave Symbols - The official UIS Symbol List

(State 1999 - voted by the national delegates)
Plan
North Arrow - Geographic Cartesic and Magnetic

Section

Nc

Nm 1989

Blocks Debris

Pebbles

Clastic sediments Sand-Silt-Clay-Humus

Claycovered Walls

Guano

Camp

Cave Symbols - The official UIS Symbol List

(State 1999 - voted by the national delegates)
Plan
Anostomosen Karren

Section

Cauliflowercalcite Disk

Bones

Human Activity
(artwork, drawing, pottery, old mining sites, human bones, ...)

Height of a room
(height in meters)