[PDF] Karst Topography In Florida eBook

Author : Sam Upchurch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2018-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319696351

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This book discusses the geology, hydrogeology, and water quality/geochemistry of karst systems in geologically young terrain, using the state of Florida as an example. Also discussed are sinkhole-development models; sinkhole risk; eogenetic karst features developed in rocks as young as 125,000 years and as old as 65 million years; and karst landscapes of Florida, including regional geology and geomorphology with important examples of karst features, such as springs, sinkholes, caves, and other karst landforms. The eogenetic karst of Florida is largely covered and this book extensively discusses the interactions of karst processes with sand- and clay-rich cover materials.

Author : Mario Parise
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781862392243

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The book presents an overview of the main hazards affecting karst, including collapse and subsidence phenomena, hydrological hazards and human-induced geohazards. Consideration is also given to the problems of geohazard management in karst. The geological and hydrological properties of karst terrains make them among the most fragile in the world and pose serious problems for land managers. Sustainable development in these terrains requires efforts to limit geohazards of anthropogenic origin and to recognize and mitigate against those of natural origin. Aimed at providing the reader with worldwide case studies, the contributions cover a range of geological and morphological settings. Geographically, the fourteen papers discuss very different karst areas, from North America, the Caribbean and Asia to several karst areas in Europe, including the British Isles, Spain, France and Italy.

Author : Elizabeth Morgan Furr Abbott
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2015-09-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781341563478

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Author : Barry F. Beck
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 100015078X

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Engineers from around the world recount in this volume their successes and failures in attempting to deal with unique and quixotic landscapes.

Author : Sandra Poucher
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813030067

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A growing community of scientists, land-management decision makers, and cavers are concerned about the protection of natural resources and want to share research among themselves. But few of them are fluent in each discipline's jargon, and cavers and geologists in particular who want to share their discoveries find it difficult to understand each other. Sandra Poucher and Rick Copeland have created this comprehensive karst glossary to correct discrepancies in communications among geologists and biologists, hydrologists and divers, cavers and speleologists, thereby enabling researchers to speak a common language. Cavers and cave divers are passionate about mastering the language to communicate their finds and understand the research of others. Speleologists (cave scientists) are eager to understand and apply cavers' discoveries to their work in the geology, biology, water flow, and other scientific aspects of caves. This multidisciplinary volume, featuring extensive reference materials, is the only one to focus on Floridian and Caribbean karst features. The highly focused result of a dynamic team of scientists, cavers, and cave divers who have sorted through the myriad of terms and definitions, this glossary is essential to geologists, hydrologists, biologists, hydrogeologists, and private businesses dealing with the study of groundwater, karst and/or treatment of sinkholes, land-management decision makers, and speleologists.