LEADER 05019nam 2200649Ia 450 001 996200051703316 005 20170814184449.0 010 $a1-282-37170-3 010 $a9786612371707 010 $a1-4443-1368-1 010 $a1-4443-1367-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788725 035 $a(EBL)470535 035 $a(OCoLC)441342289 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000118969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146173 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10053753 035 $a(PQKB)11608008 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470535 035 $a(PPN)163482411 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788725 100 $a19960315e19981996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCaves$b[electronic resource] $eprocesses, development, and management /$fDavid Gillieson 210 $aOxford, UK ;$aCambridge, Mass. $cBlackwell Publishers$d1998, c1996 215 $a1 online resource (338 p.) 225 1 $aThe natural environment 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-631-19175-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [300]-301) and index. 327 $aCaves: Processes, Development and Management; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; ONE: The Cave System and Karst; What is Karst?; What is a Cave?; Where are the Deepest and Longest Caves?; Caves as Geomorphic Systems; Now the Details ...; TWO: Cave Hydrology; Basic Concepts in Karst Drainage Systems; Karst Aquifers; Porosity and Permeability of Karatic Rocks; Zonation of the Karst Drainage System; Defining the Catchment of a Cave; Hydraulics of Groundwater Flow in Karst; Diffuse flow; Fissure flow; Conduit flow (turbulent and laminar cases); Flow nets in karst drainage systems 327 $aThe Role of SalinityEvolution of the Karst Drainage System; Analysis of Karst Drainage Systems; Water tracing techniques; Spring hydrograph analysis; Spring chemograph analysis; Structure and Function of Karst Drainage Systems; Storage and transfers in the karst system; The role of extreme events; Karst Hydrology of the Mammoth Cave Plateau, Kentucky; THREE: Processes of Cave Development; Introduction; Karst Rocks; Limestone; Dolomite; Sandstone; Processes of Dissolution of Karst Rocks; The solution of limestone in meteoric waters; Soil and vegetation in the limestone solution process 327 $aThe zoning of solution in the unsaturated zoneLimestone solution in seawater; Solution of evaporites; Solution of silicates in meteoric waters; Rock Control and Cave Morphology; Role of lithology; Role of joints, fractures and faults; Cave breakdown and evaporite weathering; The Development of Common Caves; Formation of caves in plan; Formation of caves in length and depth; The Formation of Maze Caves; Caves formed by floodwaters; Caves formed by hydrothermal waters; Caves formed in gypsum; Lava Tubes, Weathering Caves and Pseudokarst; The formation of lava tubes 327 $aWeathering caves and pseudokarstOrigin of Caves: an Overview; Geological Control and the World's Longest Cave; FOUR: Cave Formations; Introduction; Carbonates; Controls over carbonate mineralogy; Cave deposits formed by carbonate minerals; Colour of calcite formations; Important Non-Carbonate Minerals; Evaporites; Phosphates and nitrates; Oxides, silicates and hydroxides; Other Minerals; Cave Formations of the Nullarbor Plain, Australia; FIVE: Cave Sediments; Introduction; Clastic Sediment Types; Processes of Sedimentation; Gravity-fall processes; Waterlain clastic sediments 327 $aDiagenesis of Cave SedimentsStratigraphy and its Interpretation; Sediment Transport and Particle Size; Provenance Studies; Caves and Flood History in the Kimberleys, Australia; SIX: Dating Cave Deposits; The Importance of Dating Cave Deposits; Dating Techniques and the Quaternary Timescale; Palaeomagnetism; Radiocarbon; Uranium series; Trapped electron methods: ESR, TL and OSL; Timing the Ice Ages; SEVEN: Cave Deposits and Past Climates; Introduction; Basic Principles and Tests for Reliability; The Last Glacial-lnterglacial Temperature Record; Carbon Isotopes and Environmental Change 327 $aStalagmite Fluorescence and Sunspot Cycles 330 $aThis book is aimed at students of the natural environment, but it will also appeal to those - cavers, environmental managers and field naturalists - who are curious about the underground world and its inhabitants. it is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and line diagrams, almost all of which are original to the book. 410 0$aNatural environment. 606 $aCaves 606 $aLandforms 615 0$aCaves. 615 0$aLandforms. 676 $a551.447 676 $a578.7584 700 $aGillieson$b David S$01230273 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996200051703316 996 $aCaves$92855962 997 $aUNISA