Coastal Karst Landforms
Series: Coastal Research Library, Vol. 5
Lace, Michael J.; Mylroie, John E. (Eds.)
2013, XII, 369 p. 267 illus., 203 illus. in color.
Publisher: Springer
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ISBN 978-94-007-5015-9
ABOUT THIS BOOK
• 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
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.
Content Level Research
Keywords Coastal resource management - Geomorphology - Hydrology - Karst - Speleogenesis
Related subjects Earth System Sciences - Hydrogeology
Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Part I. Principles of coastal karst development
Pseudokarst caves in the littoral environment
Erosional and depositional textures and structures in coastal karst landscapes
Hydrology and geochemistry of the freshwater lens in coastal karst
Coastal karst development in carbonate rocks
The biological and archaeological significance of coastal caves and karst features
Coastal cave and karst resource management
Part II . Selected case studies in coastal cave and karst development
Caves and karst of the Bahama Islands
Tafoni cave development in the Bahamas
Coastal caves and karst of the Puerto Rican Islands
Caves and karst of Barbados
Cave development and patterns of caves and cave systems in the eogenetic coastal karst of southern Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)
Rodrigues –an Indian Ocean Island Calcarenite: Its history, study and management
Caves and karst hydrogeology of the Mariana Islands
Littoral cave development on the western U.S. coast
Climatic influences on coastal cave and karst development in Florida
Overview of the controls on eogenetic cave and karst development in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Telogenetic limestones and island karst
Australian examples of coastal caves
Glossary
Index