The Karst Landforms of Puerto Rico
Author: Watson Hiner Monroe
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discussion of a solution landscape formed a tropical climate of moderately high rainfall.
Author: Watson Hiner Monroe
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discussion of a solution landscape formed a tropical climate of moderately high rainfall.
Author: Ariel E. Lugo
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Published: 2003-07
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780756733063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Michael J. Lace
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-28
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9400750161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Carlos Ramon Escalante
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 192
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Landforms on a tropical island in the belt of the easterly tradewinds.
Author: Marjorie Mary Sweeting
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Landforms in limestone regions.
Author: Marjorie Mary Sweeting
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 362
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