The initial stages of cave formation: Beyond the one-dimensional paradigm

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 301, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 424-432

  Szymczak, Piotr ^a   Ladd, Anthony J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolution; Hydrology; Speleogenesis

Indexed keywords

BREAKTHROUGH TIME; CONCENTRATION RANGES; DISSOLUTION RATES; EROSION PATTERNS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; INFINITESIMAL PERTURBATIONS; INITIAL STAGES; KARST ENVIRONMENT; KINETIC ORDER; NONLINEAR KINETICS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PENETRATION LENGTH; SPELEOGENESIS; SUDDEN CHANGE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; UNDERSATURATION;

CAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE; HYDROLOGY; RATE CONSTANTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER;

DISSOLUTION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CAVE DEVELOPMENT; DISSOLUTION; EROSION RATE; KARST HYDROLOGY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; REACTION RATE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPELEOLOGY;

EID: 78650527827     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.026     Document Type: Article

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