Advances in Research in Karst Media

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sustainable Water Resources with Case Studies in Historic Areas in Egypt and Syria....Pages 3-12
Resources Assessment of a Small Karstic Mediterranean Aquifer (South-Eastern, Spain)....Pages 13-18
Sensitivity Analysis of APLIS Method to Compute Spatial Variability of Karst Aquifers Recharge at the National Park of Viñales (Cuba)....Pages 19-24
First Outcomes from New Approach in Assessing Recharge of Highly Karstified Terrains – Cases Examples from Montenegro....Pages 25-30
Climate Change Effects on Aquifer Recharge in a Glacierised Karst Aquifer System, Tsanfleuron-Sanetsch, Swiss Alps....Pages 31-36
Recharge Enhancement and Protection of a Karst Aquifer in Central Texas....Pages 37-42
Flow Potential Between Stacked Karst Aquifers in Central Texas, USA....Pages 43-48
Access to Coastal Karst Water Resources Through a Salinity Study During an Exceptional High-Water Event: the Case of Port-Miou (Cassis, SE France)....Pages 49-55
Is the Term ‘Karst Aquifer’ Misleading?....Pages 57-62
Evidence of an Early Phreatic and Confined Karst Phase in Minervois, South of France....Pages 63-68
Characteristics of Heterogeneous Shimbar Karstic Systems in Southwest Iran....Pages 69-74
Application of Wavelet Correlation Analysis to the Karst Spring of Fuenmayor. San Julian de Banzo, Huesca, Spain....Pages 75-81
Recession Curve Analysis to Constrain Rainfall-Discharge Model Parameterisation....Pages 83-88
Time Series Analysis of Saraw Springs – SE of Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan Region....Pages 89-94
Analysis of Spring Discharges During Droughts: Example from Karst Systems of Southern Italy....Pages 95-100
Use of Combined Recession Curves Analyses of Neighbouring Karstic Springs to Reveal Karstification Degree of Groundwater Springing Routes....Pages 101-106
Problems of Flood and Drought in a Typical Peak Cluster Depression Karst Area (SW China)....Pages 107-113
Influence of Great Flood on the Functioning of Karst Aquifer: Example of the Fontaine de Vaucluse Karst System (SE France)....Pages 115-121
Localisation of a Reactive Transport Zone in a Saturated Karstic Conduit Deduced from Natural and Artificial Tracer Tests....Pages 123-129
The Characteristics of Groundwater Flow in Karst Aquifers During Long Lasting Low Flow Conditions, Example from SW Slovenia....Pages 131-136
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Tracer Investigations of the Nature and Structure of Subsurface Voids in Mildly Karstic Aquifers: an Example from the English Chalk....Pages 137-142
Transit Time Environmental Tracing from Dissolved Organic Matter Fluorescence Properties in Karstic Aquifers. Application to Different Flows of Fontaine de Vaucluse Experimental Basin (SE France)....Pages 143-149
Use of Dissolved Organic Carbon to Characterize Infiltration in a Small Karst System in the French Jura Mountains (Fertans, France)....Pages 151-156
Investigation of Groundwater Dynamics in a Mediterranean Karst System by Using Multiple Hydrogeochemical Tracers....Pages 157-162
Hydrochemical Heterogeneity in the Discharge Zone of a Karstic Aquifer....Pages 163-168
Seasonal Variations of Hydrochemistry and Carbonate Precipitation Rate in a Travertine-Depositing Canal at Baishuitai, Yunnan, SW China: Implications for the Formation of Biannual Laminae in Travertine and Climatic Reconstruction....Pages 169-175
Interpreting Source of Lingshui Spring by Hydrogeological, Chemical and Isotopic Methods....Pages 177-181
Groundwater Tracing Using Stable Isotope in the Western Mediterranean (Case of Rif Chain in the North of Morocco)....Pages 183-188
Duality of Functioning in a Karst System Under Mediterranean Climate Conditions, Deduced from Hydrochemical Characterization....Pages 189-194
Water Origin of the Kokkino Stefani Spring (W Greece) Based on Hydrogeochemical Data....Pages 195-201
Convective Thermal Field Reconstruction by Ordinary Kriging in Karstic Aquifers (Puglia, Italy): Geostatistical Analysis of Anisotropy....Pages 203-208
Identification of Thermal Anomalies in the Carbonate Aquifer of the Lower Andarax (SE Spain) by Means of Temperature Cross-Sections....Pages 209-214
Flash Floods Forecasting in a Karstic Basin Using Neural Networks: the Case of the Lez Basin (South of France)....Pages 215-221
Hydrological Modeling of an Alpine Dolomite Karst System....Pages 223-229
Fuente de Piedra Lagoon (Málaga, Spain): a Deep Karstic Flow Discharge Point of a Regional Hydrogeological System....Pages 231-236
Numerical Modelling of Coastal Aquifer Karst Processes by Means of Coupled Simulations of Density-Driven Flow and Reactive Solute Transport Phenomena....Pages 237-242
Characteristic Curve of a Groundwater Reservoir. Calculation Models....Pages 243-249
How to Model Realistic 3D Karst Reservoirs Using a Pseudo-Genetic Methodology – Example of Two Case Studies....Pages 251-255
Insights of 3D Geological Modelling in Distributed Hydrogeological Models of Karstic Carbonate Aquifers....Pages 257-262
Hydrological Modelling of a Karst System Using non Linear Hysteretic Conceptual Model....Pages 263-268
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Object-Oriented Modelling as a Decision-Making Tool in Agriculturally Overexploited Karstic Aquifers....Pages 269-274
Toxicity and Ecotoxicity of By-Products Resulting from Degradation of Fluorescent Tracers Used in the Karstic Chalk of Normandy (France)....Pages 275-280
Distribution of Trace Elements in a Karst Environment....Pages 281-286
Scenarios of Groundwater Pollution in a Karst Watershed: a Case Study in the Pinar del Rio Province at Cuba....Pages 287-292
Assessment of Pollution Risk in the Western La Mancha Carbonated Aquifer Due to Anthropogenic Degradation of the Tablas de Daimiel National Park (Spain)....Pages 293-298
The Protection of Groundwaters Destined for Human Consumption in Karstic Aquifers. Advances Towards Safeguard Zones....Pages 299-304
Wellhead Protection Areas Delimitation in Karstic Aquifers. Aplication in Guadalquivir River Basin (Spain)....Pages 305-310
Definition of Statutory Water-Supply Protection Zones in Mountainous Karstic Aquifers of the Guadalquivir Basin....Pages 311-316
Delineating Source Protection Zones of Karst Springs. The Case Study of Villanueva del Rosario Spring (Southern Spain)....Pages 317-322
PaPRIKa, the French Multicriteria Method for Mapping the Intrinsic Vulnerability of Karst Water Resource and Source – Two Examples (Pyrenees, Normandy)....Pages 323-328
Comparative Application of Two Methods (COP and PaPRIKa) for Groundwater Vulnerability Mapping in the Lez Karst System (Montpellier, South France)....Pages 329-334
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Geomorphology and Structural Control in Caves: a Research in Torca Teyera (Picos de Europa, NW Spain)....Pages 337-342
Tracking the Space-Time Evolution of a Karstic System with Fast Dissolution Kinetics Developed in Gypsum Formations....Pages 343-348
Hypogene Speleogenetic Evidences in the Development of Cova des Pas de Vallgornera (Mallorca Island, Western Mediterranean)....Pages 349-354
A Disappearing Wetland of Karst Origin: the Laguna de la Alberca (Ronda, Málaga)....Pages 355-360
Geomorphological Characteristics of the Karst-Related Lakes in Gypsum in the Arcas and River Moscas Lake Complexes (Cuenca Province)....Pages 361-365
Konya Karapınar Obruks (Sinkholes) of Turkey....Pages 367-372
Hydrogeology and Geomorphology of the Calar del Espino (Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain), a Highly Interesting Scientific and Experimental Karstic System....Pages 373-379
Hydrochemical Variations of the Huanglong Spring-Fed Travertine-Depositing Stream in the Huanglong Ravine, Sichuan, SW China, a World Natural Heritage Site....Pages 381-386
The Role of Sculpted Forms Along Endokarstic Active Conduits in the Development of Fluviokarstic Canyons. The Rio Puron Cave Conduit (Spain)....Pages 387-392
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Karst Geosites in NE Italy....Pages 393-398
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Uncovered Caves and Their Conservation During the Construction of Motorways Over Classical Karst and Other Types of Slovenian Karst....Pages 401-406
Understanding the Leaks in Chabrouh Dam Through Detailed Hydrogeological Analysis of the Qana Plateau (Lebanon)....Pages 407-413
Decision Support Procedure for Constructing Karst Underground Reservoirs – a Case Study on Perućac Karst Spring (Western Serbia)....Pages 415-421
Aeration Zone in Karst – Properties and Investigations....Pages 423-428
Mapping Buried Karst Features with Capacitive-Coupled Resistivity System (CCR) and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)....Pages 429-434
Karst-ALEA: a Scientific Based Karst Risk Assessment for Underground Engineering....Pages 435-440
The Impacts of Quarrying in the Apulian Karst (Italy)....Pages 441-447
Influence of Karst Phenomena on Water Inflow to Zn-Pb Mines in the Olkusz District (S Poland)....Pages 449-454
Front Matter....Pages 455-455
A Model of Karstification in Extended Limestone Plains by Mixing Corrosion....Pages 457-462
Isotopic ( 13 C) Signature of CO 2 Sources in the Vadose Zone of a Mediterranean Karst (Nerja Cave Site, Southern Spain)....Pages 463-468
Effect of Ventilation on Karst System Equilibrium (Altamira Cave, N Spain): an Appraisal of Karst Contribution to the Global Carbon Cycle Balance....Pages 469-474
Influence of Daily Visiting Regime in Tourist Cave at Different Seasons....Pages 475-481
Atmospheric Model in the Llamp Shaft. Garraf – Spain (2008–2009)....Pages 483-489
Physics of Condensation Corrosion in Caves....Pages 491-496
δ 13 C Values from a Stalagmite at the Nerja Cave, South Spain....Pages 497-501
Mineral-Forming Processes at Canelobre Cave (Alicante, SE Spain)....Pages 503-508
Petrological Study as a Tool to Evaluate the Degradation of Speleothems in Touristic Caves, Castañar de Ibor Cave, Cáceres, Spain....Pages 509-514
Features and Origin of Red Clays in Castañar Cave: A Touch of Colour....Pages 515-520
Impact of the Expected Climate Change on the Stability of Underground Cavities in France....Pages 521-526