Coastal Karst Landforms /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Lace, Michael J. (Editor ), Mylroie, John E. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Coastal Research Library, 5
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.