Overview
- Offers an integrated view of karst processes in various coastal landforms
- Includes cutting edge coastal research from leaders in the field
- Examples from a broad range of island and continental shoreline settings
Part of the book series: Coastal Research Library (COASTALRL, volume 5)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Principles of Coastal Karst Development
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Front Matter
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Selected Case Studies in Coastal Cave and Karst Development
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About this book
Carbonate rock coasts are found world-wide, from continental shorelines of the Adriatic Sea of Europe to the Yucatan Peninsula of North America, and on tropical islands from Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean, to the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean, to the Bahama Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Such coasts are well known for their unusual and distinctive karst landforms. Karst processes, particularly those associated with coastal landforms, are proving to be surprisingly unique and complex.
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the processes associated with coastal karst development comparing examples from a broad geographical and geomorphological range of island and continental shoreline/paleoshoreline settings, including a review of pseudokarst processes that can compete with and overprint dynamic coastal karst landscapes.
As effective management of hydrologic resources grows more complex, coastal caves and karst represent fundamental components in associated coastal aquifers, which in the rock record can also form significant petroleum reservoirs.
Audience By providing a clearer understanding of the geological, biological, archaeological and cultural value of coastal caves and karst resources, this volume offers a critical tool to coastal researchers and geoscientists in related fields and to coastal land managers as it illustrates the diversity of coastal karst landforms, the unique processes which formed them, the diversity of resources they harbor and their relationship to coastal zone preservation strategies and the development of sustainable management approaches.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coastal Karst Landforms
Editors: Michael J. Lace, John E. Mylroie
Series Title: Coastal Research Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5016-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5015-9Published: 14 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7837-4Published: 02 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5016-6Published: 28 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-0577
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 429
Number of Illustrations: 88 b/w illustrations, 180 illustrations in colour
Topics: Coastal Sciences, Hydrogeology