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CO2 hypogene speleogenesis in an endogenic travertine system, Mesa del Oro, New Mexico, USA
Victor J. Polyak, Jeffrey R. Forbes, Michael N. Spilde, Paula P. Provencio, John R. Cochran, and Yemane Asmerom
- Whut Cave formed by CO2 hypogene speleogenesis in an endogenic travertine deposit
- Much of the CO2 in the system was sourced by local volcanic activity
- A Mn-oxide ore deposit associated with the cave is a product of speleogenesis
- Speleogenesis took place synchronously with deposition of the travertine and local volcanic activity between 900 and 300 kyr BP
Constraining the evolutionary stages of a hypogene karst system by combining morphological, geochemical and geochronological data - the example of carbonate breccia-hosted Melnička Peštera
Marjan Temovski, Zsófia Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Kata Molnár, László Rinyu, Alexander Wieser, Oscar Marchhart, and László Palcsu
- Hydrothermal carbonic speleogenesis in carbonate breccia host rock
- Laughöhle morphology and horizontal phreatic cave development near the water table
- Stable and clumped isotope and noble gas geochemistry of hydrothermal calcite
- Host rock burial age dating constrains Messinian Salinity Crisis related paleovalley
- Hypogene karst system related to Pliocene-Pleistocene volcanic activity
Revealing the ongoing speleogenetic processes in an underwater cave through the application of natural radionuclides and stable isotopes: case study from the hypogene Buda Thermal Karst
Anita Erőss, Katalin Hegedűs-Csondo, Petra Kovács-Bodor, Dénes Szieberth, Ákos Horváth, György Czuppon, Andrea Mindszenty Dr, Szabolcs Leél-Őssy, and Judit Mádl-Szőnyi
- Karst development is studied in real-time in a regional discharge area
- Cave forming process connected to lukewarm groundwater of intermediate flow system
- Free convection results in an upper warmer water layer
- Mixing corrosion is connected to a fault zone
- Danube level regulates thermal water discharge and temporal variations in mixing
The dissolution and conversion of gypsum and anhydrite
Alexander Klimchouk
Monitoring air fluxes in caves using digital flow metres
Claudio Pastore, Amir Sedaghatkish, Eric Weber, Nicolas Schmid, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, and Marc Luetscher
- Low-cost and lightweight digital flowmeter tested for the automated monitoring of air fluxes in caves
- Numerical modelling reveals inhomogeneous velocity distribution in a cave passage
- Recommendation for the positionning of instruments in air streamlines
A world review of fungi, yeasts, and slime molds in caves
Karen J. Vanderwolf, David Malloch, Donald F. McAlpine, and Graham J. Forbes
A speleogenetic history of Novoafonskaya Cave in the Western Caucasus
Olga Chervyatsova, Sergey Potapov, Jonathan Baker, Dmitry Gavryushkin, Victor Polyak, Matt Heizler, Sergey Tokarev, Sergey Sadykov, Roman Dbar, and Yuri Dublyansky
- Small-scale karstification by hydrothermal waters occurred in Miocene – Middle Pliocene
- The main volumes of the cave formed by mixing corrosion (Late Pliocene – Middle Pleistocene)
- The cave was affected by SAS during its emergence from the phreatic zone after ~400 ka
- Evolution of the cave was affected by sea level fluctuations and the tectonic uplift
4D flow pattern of the longest cave in the Eastern Alps (Schönberg-Höhlensystem, Totes Gebirge)
Lukas Plan, Eva Kaminsky, Pauline Oberender, Clemens Tenreiter, and Maximilian Wimmer
- Speleogenesis of a 156 km long and 1061 m deep Alpine cave system is studied
- Arrangement of passages at two slightly inclined planes is confirmed as speleogenetic phases
- Morphological observations reveal a reversal of flow-direction through time
- According to current hydrological conditions, a dual flow is proposed
- Unlike other karst massifs in the NCA, sediments support autogenic recharge for Totes Gebirge
Mid- to Late-Miocene hypogene speleogenesis tied to the tectonic history of the central Basin and Range province, USA
Louise D. Hose, Victor Polyak, Harvey R. DuChene, J. Douglas Powell, Leslie A. Melim, Gretchen M. Baker, Donald G. Davis, and Yemane Asmerom
- Central Basin and Range province is a major hypogenic cave region
- Speleogenesis dates back to the Middle Miocene
- Uranium-lead radiometric dates of cave mammillaries range between 14-2 Ma
- Calc-siltite is made up of silt-sized calcite and quartz grains
Dispersion of artificial tracers in ventilated caves
Claudio Pastore, Eric Weber, Frédéric Doumenc, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, and Marc Lütscher
- Artificial CO2 was injected in ventilated karst conduits (caves and mines), to assess the airflow
- Geometrical conduit parameters, air velocity, and tracer dispersion were also carried out
- The 1-D advection-dispersion model was compared with measured breakthrough curves
- The theory of dispersion is also compared with dipersion inferred from field data
- BTC tailing may stem from dead-flow zones that enhance aerosol deposition
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