Karst environments are characterized by distinctive landforms related to dissolution and a
dominant subsurface drainage. The direct connection between the surface and the …

The low permeability of clays, shales, and other argillaceous lithologies makes them key
controls of transport and deformation processes in the crust but is known for being …

" Sinkholes and Subsidence" provides a twenty-first century account of how the various
subsidence features in carbonate and evaporite rocks cause problems in development and …

The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries.
The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves …

The Anthropocene is a major new concept in the Earth sciences and this book examines the
effects on geomorphology within this period. Drawing examples from many different global …

A definitive guide, this book focuses on the design and construction of water infrastructure
projects within karst formations and provides engineering approaches for preventing and …

Sinkholes characterize karst topogra phy the world over. A mainly nat ural phenomenon,
their development in carbonate rocks such as limestones of Florida and the Yucatan …

More than a thousand sinkholes have developed along the western coast of the Dead Sea
since the early 1980s, more than 75% of them since 1997, all occurring within a narrow strip …

Sinkholes or dolines are closed depressions characteristic of terrains underlain by soluble
rocks (carbonates and/or evaporites). They may be related to the differential dissolutional …

The Urrea de Jalón tufa deposits constitute the 20‐to 50‐m‐thick caprock (0· 3 km2) of an
isolated mesa. They disconformably overlie horizontal strata of the Tertiary Ebro Basin (NE …