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Karst hydrogeology and geomorphology / Derek Ford and Paul Williams
- Author
- Ford, Derek (Derek C.)
- Published
- Chichester, England ; A Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ©2007
- Edition
- [Rev. ed.].
- Physical Description
- ix, 562 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Additional Creators
- Williams, Paul W. (Paul Worthing)
- Contents
- THE KARST ROCKS: Carbonate rocks and minerals -- Limestone compositions and depositional facies -- Limestone diagenesis and the formation of dolomite -- The evaporite rocks -- Quartzites and siliceous sandstones -- Effects of lithological properties upon karst development -- Interbedded clastic rocks -- Bedding planes, joints, faults and fracture traces -- Fold topography -- Palaeokarst unconformities -- DISSOLUTION: CHEMICAL AND KINETIC BEHAVIOUR OF THE KARST ROCKS: Aqueous solutions and chemical equilibria -- The dissolution of anhydrite, gypsum and salt -- The dissolution of silica -- Bicarbonate equilibria and the dissolution of carbonate rocks in normal meteoric waters -- The S-O-H system and the dissolution of carbonate rocks -- Chemical complications in carbonate dissolution -- Biokarst processes -- Measurements in the field and laboratory: computer programs -- Dissolution and precipitation kinetics of karst rocks -- DISTRIBUTION AND RATE OF KARST DENUDATION: Global variations in the solutional denudation of carbonate terrains -- Measurement and calculation of solutional denudation rates -- Solution rates in gypsum, salt and other non-carbonate rocks -- Interpretation of measurements -- KARST HYDROGEOLOGY: Basic hydrogeological concepts, terms and definitions -- Controls on the development of karst hydrological systems -- Energy supply and flow-network development -- Development of the water table and Phreatic zones -- Development of the Vadose zone -- Classification and characteristics of karst aquifers -- Applicability of Darcy's law to karst -- Freshwater-saltwater interface -- ANALYSIS OF KARST DRAINAGE SYSTEMS: The 'grey box' nature of karst -- Surface exploration and survey techniques -- Investigating recharge and percolation in the Vadose zone -- Borehole analysis -- Spring hydrograph analysis -- Polje hydrograph analysis -- Spring chemograph interpretation -- Storage volumes and flow routing under different states of the hydrograph -- Interpreting the organization of a karst aquifer -- Water-tracing techniques -- Computer modelling of karst aquifers -- SPELEOGENESIS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAVE SYSTEMS: Classifying cave systems -- Building the plan patterns of unconfined caves -- Unconfined cave development in length and depth -- System modifications occurring within a single phase -- Multiphase cave systems -- Meteoric water caves developed where there is confined circulation or basal injection of water -- Hypogene caves: hydrothermal caves associated chiefly with CO2 -- Hypogene caves: caves formed by waters containing H2S -- Sea-Coast eogenetic caves -- Passage cross-sections and smaller features of erosional morphology -- Condensation, condensation corrosion and weathering in caves -- Breakdown in caves -- and CAVE INTERIOR DEPOSITS: Clastic sediments -- Calcite, aragonite and other carbonate precipitates -- Other cave minerals -- Ice in caves -- Dating of calcite speleothems and other cave deposits -- Palaeoenvironmental analysis of calcite speleothems -- Mass flux through a cave system: the example of Friar's Hole, West Virginia -- KARST LANDFORM DEVELOPMENT IN HUMID REGIONS: Coupled hydrological and geochemical systems -- Small-scale solution sculpture - Microkarren and Karren -- Dolines - the 'diagnostic' karst landform? -- The origin and development of solution dolines -- The origin of collapse and subsidence depressions -- Polygonal karst -- Morphometric analysis of solution dolines -- Landforms associated with allogenic inputs: contact karst -- Karst Poljes -- Corrosional plains and shifts in baselevel -- Residual hills on karst plains -- Depositional and constructional karst features -- Special features of evaporite terrains -- Karstic features of quartzose and other rocks -- Sequences of carbonate karst evolution in humid terrains -- Computer models of karst landscape evolution -- THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE, CLIMATIC CHANGE AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON KARST DEVELOPMENT: The precepts of climatic geomorphology -- The hot arid extreme -- The cold extreme: karst development in glaciated terrains -- The cold extreme: karst development in permafrozen terrains -- Sea-level changes, tectonic movement and implications for coastal karst development -- Polycyclic, polygenetic and exhumed karsts -- KARST WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Water resources and sustainable yields -- Determination of available water resources -- Karst hydrogeological mapping -- Human impacts on karst water -- Groundwater vulnerability, protection and risk mapping -- Dam building, leakages, failures and impacts -- HUMAN IMPACTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION: The inherent vulnerability of karst systems -- Deforestation, agricultural impacts and rocky desertification -- Sinkholes, induced by dewatering, surcharging, solution mining and other practices on karst -- Problems of construction on and in the karst rocks - expect the unexpected! -- Industrial exploitation of karst rocks and minerals -- Restoration of karstlands and rehabilitation of limestone quarries -- Sustainable management of karst -- Scientific, cultural and recreational values of karstlands.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0470849967 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0470849975 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780470849965 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780470849972 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-553) and index.
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