Overview
- Points out the significant role of tectonic stress fields as an influencing factor on karst processes
- Exposes a complex methodological approach for paleoseismological studies in karstic caves
- Demonstrates the importance of the movement of the tectonic block itself during the process of rupturing and displacement along active or capable faults
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cave and Karst Systems of the World (CAKASYWO)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The karstic caves are favorable sites for tectonic events detecting, representing a conservative medium of three-dimensional framework where the tectonic deformations are well preserved. They also provide an environment conducive to dating and determining the geometrical parameters of past seismotectonic events. During the last three decades the study of dynamic tectonics and recent geodynamics in karst terrains has been subject of numerous publications, but it has not been systematically approached in a comprehensive monograph.
This book collects the current state of knowledge on the relationship between karst and dynamic tectonics and presents a new methodology to its study. It puts forward several approaches for studying of recent geodynamics in karst terrains, such as tectonic stress fields reconstructions using structural analysis of the fracturing, geophysical studies of the rock anisotropy and fault-plane solutions from earthquakes, analysis of the spatial orientation and absolute dating of deformed speleothems, instrumental and mechanical measurements, monitoring and modeling – all supported with case studies from several karst areas worldwide, e.g. in Albania, Bulgaria, Cuba and France.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamic Tectonics and Karst
Authors: Stefan Shanov, Konstantin Kostov
Series Title: Cave and Karst Systems of the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43992-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-43991-3Published: 08 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52375-9Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-43992-0Published: 23 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2364-4591
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 123
Number of Illustrations: 94 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Structural Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Natural Hazards, Hydrogeology