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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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General Karst Features and Processes
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Front Matter
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Examples of Paleokarst Terranes
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Keywords
About this book
Landscapes of the past have always held an inherent fascination for ge ologists because, like terrestrial sediments, they formed in our environment, not offshore on the sea floor and not deep in the subsurface. So, a walk across an ancient karst surface is truly a step back in time on a surface formed open to the air, long before humans populated the globe. Ancient karst, with its associated subterranean features, is also of great scientific interest because it not only records past exposure of parts of the earth's crust, but preserves information about ancient climate and the movement of waters in paleoaquifers. Because some paleokarst terranes are locally hosts for hydrocarbons and base metals in amounts large enough to be economic, buried and exhumed paleokarst is also of inordinate practical importance. This volume had its origins in a symposium entitled "Paleokarst Systems and Unconformities-Characteristics and Significance," which was orga nized and convened by us at the 1985 midyear meeting of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The symposium had its roots in our studies over the last decade, both separately and jointly, of a number of major and minor unconformities and of the diverse, and often spectacular paleokarst features associated with these unconformities.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paleokarst
Editors: Noel P. James, Philip W. Choquette
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3748-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1988
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8332-4Published: 16 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3748-8Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 416
Topics: Sedimentology