Dealing with Gypsum Karst Problems: Hazards, Environmental Issues, and Planning

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 451-462

  Cooper, A H ^a   Gutierrez F ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bridge; Building damage; Construction; Dam; Dissolution; Doline; Gypsum; Hydrogeology; Leakage; Planning; Railway; Road; Sinkhole; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885186393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00106-8     Document Type: Chapter

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