This book presents the latest advances in karstology by researchers at the ZRC SAZU Karst
Research Institute, Slovenia–home of Classical Karst. It features interdisciplinary …

As karstologists in the country of the Classical Karst, we are striving to develop Slovenia's
Karst Research Institute as one of the leading international karstology research and …

In the last decades of the 19th and first decades of the 20th century, the general approach in
karst investigations was primarily scientific and theoretical. However, due to karst terrains …

Karst Hydrogeology, Geomorphology and Caves A Comprehensive Resource Covering All
Aspects of Karst Hydrogeology, Geomorphology, and Caves This essential book covers all …

Karst areas with permanent surface water flow are rare. Precipitation quickly disappears
underground through karstified terrain, where it flows–for the most part hidden from our view …

Early civilizations recognized the importance of springwaters generally and of karstic springs
in particular. Due to the unique nature of karst, man in karst or limestone terrains perhaps …

The term" karst" has been used only since the 19th Century. It is a German term applied to
an earlier Serbo Croatian term" krs". Descriptions of karst phenomena, caves, sinkholes …

Abstract Academician Ivan Gams is Slovenia's best known researcher of karst and the most
prolific author of works on karst. During his first job at the Institute of Geography of the …

Karst aquifers constitute 12% of the global land surface and store water on which
approximately 20–25% of the world's population depends, as it is stated in classical text …

About 44% of Slovenia's surface consists of carbonate rocks. Karst geomorphology and over
13,000 known caves represent a significant proportion of its landscape. Various sediments …