Coastal Karst Landforms
Carbonate rock coasts are found world-wide, from continental shorelines of the Adriatic Sea of Europe to the Yucatan Peninsula of North America, and on tropical islands from Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean, to the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean, to the Bahama Islands in the Atlantic Ocean...
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| Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , |
| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Σειρά: | Coastal Research Library,
5 |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I. Principles of coastal karst development
- Pseudokarst caves in the littoral environment
- Erosional and depositional textures and structures in coastal karst landscapes
- Hydrology and geochemistry of the freshwater lens in coastal karst
- Coastal karst development in carbonate rocks
- The biological and archaeological significance of coastal caves and karst features
- Coastal cave and karst resource management
- Part II . Selected case studies in coastal cave and karst development
- Caves and karst of the Bahama Islands
- Tafoni cave development in the Bahamas
- Coastal caves and karst of the Puerto Rican Islands
- Caves and karst of Barbados
- Cave development and patterns of caves and cave systems in the eogenetic coastal karst of southern Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)
- Rodrigues –an Indian Ocean Island Calcarenite: Its history, study and management
- Caves and karst hydrogeology of the Mariana Islands
- Littoral cave development on the western U.S. coast
- Climatic influences on coastal cave and karst development in Florida
- Overview of the controls on eogenetic cave and karst development in Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Telogenetic limestones and island karst
- Australian examples of coastal caves
- Index.
