Dear friends,
It is with pleasure that we announce that the Special Issue of Geomorphology (ISSN 0169-555X) on "Recent developments in Surface and Subsurface Karst Geomorphology" is about to be printed. This issue collects some of the papers presented during the Karst Geomorphology session at the European Geological Union Assembly at Vienna 2007 and some invited papers.
The contents are already downloadable in the Elsevier's websites (ScienceDirect).
We hope this issue will make cave and karst science better known in the scientific community.
Many thanks to all the authors and referees that have made this special issue possible.
Best wishes
Jo De Waele
Philippe Audra
Lukas Plan
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GEOMORPHOLOGY (ISSN 0169-555X)
Volume 106, issues 1-2, May 2009
Special Issue
Recent developments in surface and subsurface karst geomorphology
Guest editors Jo De Waele, Philippe Audra and Lukas Plan
CONTENTS
Recent developments in surface and subsurface karst geomorphology: An introduction
Pages 1-8
Jo De Waele, Lukas Plan, Philippe Audra
On concepts and methods for the estimation of dissolutional denudation rates in karst areas
Pages 9-14
Franci Gabrovsek
Solution weathering rate and origin of karst landforms and caves in the quartzite of Auyan-tepui (Gran Sabana, Venezuela)
Pages 15-25
Leonardo Piccini, Marco Mecchia
Morphology and origin of coastal karst landforms in Miocene and Quaternary carbonate rocks along the central-western coast of Sardinia (Italy)
Pages 26-34
Jo De Waele, Mauro Mucedda, Luca Montanaro
The role of loamy sediment (terra rossa) in the context of steady state karst surface lowering
Pages 35-45
France Sustersic, Klement Rejsek, Miha Misic, Frantisek Eichler
The effect of river dynamics induced by the Messinian Salinity Crisis on karst landscape and caves: Example of the Lower Ardeche river (mid Rhone valley)
Pages 46-61
Ludovic Mocochain, Philippe Audra, Georges Clauzon, Olivier Bellier, Jean-Yves Bigot, Olivier Parize, Philippe Monteil
Modelling karst geomorphology on different time scales
Pages 62-77
Georg Kaufmann
Bats and bell holes: The microclimatic impact of bat roosting, using a case study from Runaway Bay Caves, Jamaica
Pages 78-85
Joyce Lundberg, Donald A. McFarlane
Evidence of inception horizons in karst conduit networks
Pages 86-99
Marco Filipponi, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, Laurent Tacher
Morphogenesis of hypogenic caves
Pages 100-117
Alexander Klimchouk
Constraints on alpine speleogenesis from cave morphology ? A case study from the eastern Totes Gebirge (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)
Pages 118-129
Lukas Plan, Marco Filipponi, Michael Behm, Robert Seebacher, Peter Jeutter
A mid Miocene to early Pleistocene multi-level cave as a gauge for tectonic uplift of the Swabian Alb (Southwest Germany)
Pages 130-141
M. Strasser, A. Strasser, K. Pelz, H. Seyfried
Cyclic sedimentation in Brazilian caves: Mechanisms and palaeoenvironmental significance
Pages 142-153
Augusto S. Auler, Peter L. Smart, Xianfeng Wang, Luis B. Pilo, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng
Gravitational deformations and fillings of aging caves: The example of Qesem karst system, Israel
Pages 154-164
Amos Frumkin, Panagiotis Karkanas, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Ran Barkai, Avi Gopher, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Anton Vaks