This book describes caves as physical, geological, and biological phenomena: it provides explanations of how they form, what can be learnt from them, and how they can best be managed for the benefit of future generations. The limestone caves of the world have long been of importance to people for shelter, water supply, food, spirituality and for defense. They have long provoked awe and a sense of mystery. Cave science is now well established to elucidate their mystery. The volume opens with an examination of contemporary processes of cave development, and of cave underground drainage basins with characteristic three–dimensional mazes of connected passages. It describes the details of cave hydrology, involving water tracing and isotope analysis, along with the processes of solution of limestone and other caves forming rocks such as sandstone and gypsum. The author then moves to past processes. Caves are nature?s vaults, preserving the products of landscape processes...

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