Karst Hydrology and Physical Speleology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Karstifiable Rocks

   • Alfred Bögli

   Pages 1-11

3. Processes of Dissolution of Karstifiable Rocks, Corrosion

   • Alfred Bögli

   Pages 12-49

4. A General View of Exokarst

   • Alfred Bögli

   Pages 50-72

5. Endokarst and Karst Hydrology

   • Alfred Bögli

   Pages 73-76

6. Physical Behavior of Karst Water

   • Alfred Bögli

   Pages 77-98

7. Karst Hydrological Zones

   • Alfred Bögli

   Pages 99-110

8. Karst Water — Groundwater

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   Pages 111-115

9. Underground Karst Levels

   • Alfred Bögli

   Pages 116-119

10. Karst Springs

    • Alfred Bögli

    Pages 120-137

11. Tracers

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    Pages 138-143

12. Incasion, Breakdown

    • Alfred Bögli

    Pages 144-150

13. Speleomorphology, the World of Forms Created by the Subterranean Removal of Matter

    • Alfred Bögli

    Pages 151-164

14. Cave Sediments

    • Alfred Bögli

    Pages 165-199

15. Speleogenetics

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    Pages 200-213

16. Speleometeorology — Speleoclimatology

    • Alfred Bögli

    Pages 214-226

17. Ice Caves

    • Alfred Bögli

    Pages 227-230

18. Classification of Underground Cavities

    • Alfred Bögli

    Pages 231-237

19. Back Matter

    Pages 238-286

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The present publication on karst hydrology and physical speleology combines two subjects which have up to now been treated separately. The two fields of knowledge have gone their separate ways, less as a result of differences in subject matter than of varying approaches. The focal point in karst hydrology lies in the description of subter­ ranean water with its physical and chemical properties, whereas physical speleology de­ scribes subterranean cavities with their contents (air, water, and sediments), which gen­ erally have been created by water. Such cavities can be correctly interpreted only by means of a knowledge of karst hydrology, yet they in turn yield indications of the pro­ perties of karst water. Karst hydrology and physical speleology are thus two aspects of the subterranean karst phenomenon and should be viewed congruently. This book addresses geologists, hydrologists, geomorphologists, geographers, and karstologists, above all speleologists, as well as all friends of caves, especially the cavers among them. Its contents must therefore appeal to two groups: on one hand to the academically trained, whether university faculty, graduates, or students, who as a rule have the necessary basic knowledge to be able to understand the theoretical com­ ments; on the other hand to the laymen, who have fust-hand experience from their own observations in caves, but who often do not dispose over the scientific foundation necessary for an understanding of the phenomena. Therefore occasionally more attention will be given to problems of a simpler nature and to questions of technical terminology.

• Hydrogeologie
• Höhle
• Karst
• Sediment
• hydrogeology
• hydrology

• Geographisches Institut der Universität, Zürich, Switzerland

  Alfred Bögli

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