Overview
- Is the first comprehensive book on caves and karst in Croatia
- Highlights rare and revealing examples from civil engineering practice
- Includes a wealth of fascinating photographs from the karst underground
Part of the book series: Cave and Karst Systems of the World (CAKASYWO)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In the process of building highways in the country’s karst regions over the last thirty years, thousands of caverns (speleological features without natural entrances) were discovered and thoroughly explored. All of them were geologically mapped, surveyed, and photographed in detail. Extensive research was systematically carried out inCroatian karst regions on sections of roads, highways, cuttings, slides, tunnels, bridge foundations, viaducts, etc., while creating ca. 800 kilometers of highways (such as the Zagreb-Rijeka highway, Zagreb-Split-Dubrovnik highway, Y-Ipsilon of Istria semi-highway, Rijeka-Rupa highway, Zagreb-Zadar semi-highway, and the Rijeka bypass). Some of these caverns contain major chambers like in the “Sveti Rok” tunnel and in some of them, like in the “Vrata” tunnel, it was even necessary to build a bridge. This bridge is the longest one in the world built in a tunnel over a cavern.
The book describes this and many more features of the cave exploration of the Dinaric Karst System of Croatia, making it a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, cavers, and all other readers interested in karst.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Dinaric Karst System of Croatia
Book Subtitle: Speleology and Cave Exploration
Authors: Mladen Garasic
Series Title: Cave and Karst Systems of the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80587-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80586-9Published: 29 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80589-0Published: 30 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80587-6Published: 28 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2364-4591
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 437
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 445 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Physical Geography, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Water Quality/Water Pollution