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Discussion of a solution landscape formed a tropical climate of moderately high rainfall.
Author : Watson Hiner Monroe
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Karst
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Discussion of a solution landscape formed a tropical climate of moderately high rainfall.
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Ariel E. Lugo
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2003-07
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ISBN : 9780756733063
The limestone region of PR covers about 27% of the island1s surface and has karst features. The karst belt (KB), that part of the northern limestone with the most spectacular karst landforms, covering 65% of the northern limestone, is the focus here. Chapters: geography; features: geomorphological, hydrological, and ecological diversity; nat1l. resources; econ. importance: water, other minerals, ag., forestry, and environ. disturbances; history of intensive use; vulnerable to human activity: cutting vs. paved over forests, draining vs. filling wetlands, conversion vs. trans1n. of land uses, pumping vs. overdrafting aquifers, contaminating vs. poisoning ground water, and surface water pollution; and proposal for transferring KB to the public domain. Color photos.
Author : Watson Hiner Monroe
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Landforms
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Landforms on a tropical island in the belt of the easterly tradewinds.
Author : Michael J. Lace
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400750161
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.
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Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Geology
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Geology
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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : Spencer Fleury
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402096704
Land use decisions in karst terrains can have immediate and serious impacts on the local landscape and groundwater resources. The existing literature on karst and land use can be very difficult to locate in the journals of any of a half-dozen different disciplines. This book brings the interdisciplinary knowledge together in one place, in a format that academics and professionals alike will find accessible, informative and useful. Based on an examination of existing regulations, the experiences and opinions of planners and land use professionals, and quantitative analysis of publicly-available data, the book explores how human settlement patterns and urban systems in karst terrains are affected by land use regulations intended to protect karst resources. The book pays particular attention to the questions of whether these regulations will have a noticeable impact on density and on opportunities for economic growth and development in communities that choose to implement them. This analysis serves as the basis for a regulatory framework that may be used to understand the workings of land use regulations in karst terrains, and to aid in the development of such regulations in the future.
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Hydrology
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