Relationship between carbon dioxide in Balcarka Cave and adjacent soils in the Moravian Karst region of the Czech Republic

International Journal of Speleology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-28

  Faimon, Jiří ^a   Ličbinská, Monika ^a,b   Zajíček, Petr ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^c Cave Administration of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cave; CO 2; Czech Republic; Dripwater; Epikarst; Moravian Karst; Soil; Visitors

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CAVE DEPOSIT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; HUMIDITY; KARST; LIMESTONE; SPELEOTHEM;

BALCARKA CAVE; CZECH REPUBLIC; JIHOMORAVSKY; MORAVIA;

EID: 84858818818     PISSN: 03926672     EISSN: 1827806X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5038/1827-806X.41.1.3     Document Type: Article

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