The Vertical Dimension of Karst: Controls of Vertical Cave Pattern

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 186-206

  Audra, P ^a   Palmer, A N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Base level rise; Cave level; Cave pattern; Epiphreatic cave development; Flooded karst; Juvenile cave pattern; Looping cave; Mature through caves; Messinian karst; Per ascensum model of speleogenesis; Perched cave; Phreatic lift; Vauclusian cave; Water table cave

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887407402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00098-1     Document Type: Chapter

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