Karst breakdown mechanisms from observations in the gypsum caves of the Western Ukraine: Implications for subsidence hazard assessment

Environmental Geology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 336-359

  Klimchouk, A ^a   Andrejchuk, V ^b  

^a Department of stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Cenozoic deposits   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gypsum caves; Karst breakdown mechanisms; Karst subsidence; Speleogenesis; Subsidence hazard assessment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAVITATION; HAZARDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEDIMENTS; SURFACES;

GYPSUM CAVES; HYDRODYNAMIC DESTRUCTION; KARST BREAKDOWN MECHANISMS; SURFACE SUBSIDIENCE;

GYPSUM;

GYPSUM; KARST;

EID: 23044499088     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-005-1279-1     Document Type: Article

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