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Dinaric karst system of Croatia [electronic resource] : speleology and cave exploration / Mladen Garasic.

Garasic, Mladen.
2021
GB600.4.C87
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Title
Dinaric karst system of Croatia [electronic resource] : speleology and cave exploration / Mladen Garasic.
Author
Garasic, Mladen.
ISBN
9783030805876 (electronic bk.)
3030805875 (electronic bk.)
3030805867
9783030805869
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80587-6
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-80587-6 doi
Call Number
GB600.4.C87
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.44/7094972
Summary
This book offers readers a thorough introduction to the Dinaric Karst System in Croatia. As the first comprehensive book on the countrys caves and karst, it presents a wealth of fascinating photographs from its karst underground. To date, ca. 12,000 caves and pits have been confirmed in Croatia, approximately 35% of which contain constant groundwater. Knowing the amount, direction and quality of groundwater that has been discovered in caves of the Croatian karst allows us to predict with greater certainty the hydrogeological situation of some karst areas where no special drilling or borehole measurements were performed. In the process of building highways in the countrys karst regions over the last thirty years, thousands of caverns (speleological features without natural entrances) were discovered and thoroughly explored. All of them were geologically mapped, surveyed, and photographed in detail. Extensive research was systematically carried out in Croatian karst regions on sections of roads, highways, cuttings, slides, tunnels, bridge foundations, viaducts, etc., while creating ca. 800 kilometers of highways (such as the Zagreb-Rijeka highway, Zagreb-Split-Dubrovnik highway, Y-Ipsilon of Istria semi-highway, Rijeka-Rupa highway, Zagreb-Zadar semi-highway, and the Rijeka bypass). Some of these caverns contain major chambers like in the Sveti Rok tunnel and in some of them, like in the Vrata tunnel, it was even necessary to build a bridge. This bridge is the longest one in the world built in a tunnel over a cavern. The book describes this and many more features of the cave exploration of the Dinaric Karst System of Croatia, making it a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, cavers, and all other readers interested in karst.
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Cave and karst systems of the world.
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Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction to Karst and Geology of Croatia
Abstract
1.1 Karst Reliefs
1.2 Geology of Croatia in General
1.2.1 Tectonics and Seismic Activity of Croatia
1.2.2 Hydrogeology of Croatia
2 The Dinaric Karst System in Croatia
Abstract
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Geology of Dinaric Karst in Croatia
2.3 Short History of Karst Research in Croatia
2.4 Surface Karst (Geo)morphology
3 Underground Karst Morphology (Speleology)
Abstract

3.1 Short Review of History of Speleology in Croatia
3.2 Types of Speleological Objects in the Dinaric Karst of Croatia
3.2.1 Caves
3.2.2 Pits
3.2.3 Combined Speleological Objects
3.3 Speleogenesis in the Dinaric Karst of Croatia
3.3.1 Hydrogeological Factors of Speleogenesis in the Dinaric Karst
3.3.2 Lithostratigraphic Conditions of Speleogenesis
3.3.3 Tectogenesis
3.3.4 Sea Level Uplift in the Dinaric Karst Area of Croatia
3.3.5 Water in Speleological Objects in the Dinaric Karst of Croatia
3.3.5.1 Springs
3.3.5.2 Swallow-Holes (Ponors)

3.3.5.3 Percolating Speleological Objects
4 Caves in Croatia-Caves in the Central Part of Dinaric Karst
Abstract
4.1 External (Outer) Dinaric Belt
4.1.1 Caves of the Adriatic Sea in the Dinaric Karst of Croatia
4.1.2 Caves of the Adriatic Islands
4.1.2.1 Caves of the Peljeac Peninsula
4.1.3 High Mountain Caves
4.1.4 Caves of Istria, Ravni kotari and Dalmatian Hinterland
4.2 Central (Middle) Dinaric Belt
4.2.1 Caves of Lika
4.2.2 Caves of Gorski Kotar
4.3 Inner Dinaric Karst Belt
4.3.1 Kordun and Banija Caves

4.4 Cave Occurrences in Separate Parts of the Dinaric Karst Area in Croatia
4.4.1 Caves of mberak and Samobor Mountains
4.4.2 The caves of Mount Medvednica
4.4.3 Caves of Zagorje and Slavonian Mountains
5 Caverns Found and Explored During Construction Work in the Dinaric Karst of Croatia
Abstract
5.1 Caverns Found and Explored in the Foundations of Various Buildings
5.2 Caverns Found and Explored in Constructing a Hydropower Plants
6 Caverns Found and Explored During Construction of Road Tunnels in Istria and the Gorski Kotar Region
Abstract
6.1 Ua Tunnel

6.2 Tuhobi Tunnel
6.3 Sleme Tunnel
6.4 Sopa Tunnel
6.5 Vrak Tunnel
6.6 Vrata Tunnel
6.7 Veliki Gloc Tunnel
6.8 rdak Tunnel
6.9 Hrasten Tunnel
6.10 Luce Tunnel
7 Caverns Found and Explored During the Construction of Road Tunnels in Lika and Dalmatia Regions and the City of Rijeka
Abstract
7.1 Sveti Rok Tunnel
7.2 Mala Kapela Tunnel
7.3 Bristovac Tunnel
7.4 Plasina Tunnel
7.5 Gri Tunnel
7.6 Brinje Tunnel
7.7 Sveti Ilija Tunnel
7.8 Pene Tunnel
7.9 Roan Brdo Tunnel
7.10 Puljani Tunnel

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