Caves [[electronic resource] ] : processes, development, and management / / David Gillieson

• Autore: Gillieson David S
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, UK ; ; Cambridge, Mass., : Blackwell Publishers, 1998, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Disciplina: 551.447; 578.7584
• Soggetto topico: Caves; Landforms
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-301) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Caves: 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 ; The 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 ; The 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 ; Weathering 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 ; Diagenesis 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 ; Stalagmite Fluorescence and Sunspot Cycles
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Caves
• ISBN: 1-282-37170-3; 9786612371707; 1-4443-1368-1; 1-4443-1367-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996200051703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Natural environment.