Sources and Transport of Inorganic Carbon in the Unsaturated Zone of Karst

• Main Author: Milanolo, Simone (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.

This book combines field, laboratory and modelling methods to identify, characterize and quantify sources and fluxes within and between the different compartments: water, rock and air. Inorganic carbon plays an important role in shaping karst features. In the unsaturated zone, the percolating water...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Site Description
• Materials and Methods
• A Conceptual Model
• Cave Climate
• Carbon Dioxide Sources, Storage and Transport in cave Atmosphere
• Cave Atmosphere Response to Artificial input of Carbon Dioxide
• From Soil to Cave: The Inorganic carbon in Drip water
• Calcite Deposition
• The Isotopic Imprint
• General Conclusions.