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$28.00 (2011) ISBN Number 978-0-9789976-5-6

84 pages, black and white with color cover.

This new publication is Special Publication 16 from the Karst Waters Institute, consisting of papers presented by invited speakers and other conference attendees. Topics covered include carbonate mineralogy and geochemistry, modern carbonate environments, diagenesis processes and products, carbonate petrophysics and sequence stratigraphy, fluid circulation and reactive transport modeling, and climate change and landscapes.

Recommended citation: Engel, A.S., Engel, S.A., Moore, P.J., and DuChene, H., eds., 2011, Carbonate Geochemistry: Reactions and Processes in Aquifers and Reservoirs. Selected papers and abstracts of the symposium held August 6 through 9, 2011, Billings, Montana. Karst Waters Institute Special Publication 16, Karst Waters Institute, Leesburg, Virginia, 84p.

The enclosed CD-ROM contains a scanned version of the complete 1991 book, Palaeokarsts and Palaeokarstic Reservoirs, edited by V.P. Wright, M. Esteban, and P.L. Smart. The digital files are in pdf (tiff) format, which can be viewed on a computer using free Adobe Acrobat software and printed in part or in whole.

This important volume brings together critical concepts for the application of karst in the study of petroleum reservoirs. The contributors are leaders in their fields, and provide a synthesis and overview of the factors affecting karst style and distribution worldwide.

The 158 pages include 4 chapters:

• Karst processes, hydrology, and porosity evolution, written by Peter L. Smart and Fiona F. Whitaker

• Palaeokarst types, recognition, controls, and association, written by V. Paul Wright

• Palaeokarst: Practical applications, written by Mateau Esteban

• Palaeokarst: Case histories, written by Mateau Esteban

The enclosed CD-ROM contains a scanned version of the complete 1988 book, Paleokarst, edited by N.P. James and P.W. Choquette. The digital book has a total of 323 MB as pdf (tiff) formatted files. The publication may be viewed on a computer using free Adobe Acrobat software, and printed in part or in whole.

From the back cover: “This volume brings together for the first time the results of contemporary research on virtually all major aspects of karst and paleokarst. It is divided into two sections covering general karst features and processes as well as examples of paleokarst terranes. The reader will find chapters on - modern cave systems, both the caves and the precipitates (speleothems) adorning them - geochemical attributes of carbonate cements and speleothems associated with both modern and ancient karst - a series of examples of paleokarst at scales ranging from local to regional and interregional and from Precambrian to Mesozoic in age documenting the kind of stratigraphic and sedimentological detail preserved in the rock record - overviews and specific studies concerning the occurrence of hydrocarbons and mineral deposits in ancient karst systems.”

The 416 pages include 18 chapters such as:

• Characteristics of dissolutional cave systems in carbonate rocks, written by Derek C. Ford

• Neptunian dikes and fissure fills: Overview and account of some modern examples, written by Peter L. Smart, R.J. Palmer, F. Whitaker, and V. Paul Wright

• Proterozoic paleokarst profile, Dismal Lakes Group, N.W.T., Canada, written by Charles Kerans and J. Alan Donaldson

• Ordovician Knox paleokarst unconformity, Appalachians, written by J. Fred Read

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This book is a new project for KWI, and a deviation from other Special Publications. The main goal of the book is to provide an educational ensemble of detailed, authoritative field guides for cave and karst areas of the United States. The book includes seven previously published, but updated, guides that were a part of earlier Special Publications (associated with KWI conferences). To broaden the scope of the book, five new and two other updated, previously published guides were written by associates of KWI. The guides predominately focus on the geology and hydrology of a specific region, but cultural history, biological diversity, and anthropogenic issues are also highlighted by some. Formal road or cave logs are included. The diverse assortment of guides should provide an entertaining mix of information for the reader, the traveler, and the explorer.

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The enclosed CD-ROM contains a scanned version of the complete book as files in pdf (tiff) format. The book contains 725 pages and 38 chapters, including:

• Jerzy Glazek, Pavel Bosák and Derek C. Ford, Paleokarst as a Problem

• Yves Quinif, Paleokarst of Belgium

• Pál Müller, Hydrothermal Paleokarst of Hungary

• Rostislav Alekseevich Tsykin, Paleokarst of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• Zhang Shouyue, Paleokarst of China

• Derek C. Ford, Paleokarst of Canada

• Margaret V. Palmer and Arthur N. Palmer, Paleokarst of the United States

• György Bárdossy, Bauxites

• Yves Fuchs, Paleokarst-related Uranium Deposits

• Adolfo Eraso, Paleokarst in Civil Engineering

• Ivan Horácek and László Kordos, Biostratigraphic Investigations in Paleokarst

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This Special Publication is from the Frontiers of Karst Research workshop held in May, 2008, in San Antonio, Texas. The report contains three main parts: Part 1 is the overview summary of the Opportunities & Recommendations, The Future Frontier; Part II contains seven state-of-the-art, Today’s Frontier, papers presented by breakout leaders at the workshop; and Part III consists of the seven reports, Findings and Recommendations, from the workshop focus groups.

The Karst Waters Institute greatly appreciates the financial and logistical support for the workshop from the following: the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Office, the National Cave and Karst Research Institute, and the University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences.

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Download SP13 Opportunities and Recommendations: The Next Frontier (this is the front of the book)

Download full publication SP13 for free (PDF ~11 Mb)

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The enclosed CD-ROM contains a scanned version of the complete publication run of the journal Speleochronos (ISSN 1372-6919), as 10 files in pdf (tiff) format. The publication may be viewed on a computer using (free) Adobe Acrobat software, and printed in part or in whole. Articles are primarily in French, and focus on the use of cave deposits for climate studies, hydrology, and neo-tectonism. The 364 pages include 35 titles such as:

• La datation uranium-thorium, written by Y. Quinif

• Les conglomérats souterrains - Morphologies, genèse et âge U/Th d’après quelques examples alpins et pyrénéens, written by R. Maire et al.

• Contribution of isotope chemistry to the study of climatic and environmental evolution of Monte Campo dei Fiori (Lombardy, Italy), written by A. Uggeierri et al.

• Morphologic, crystallographic and isotopic study of an ancient flowstone (grotta di cunturines, dolomites): Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, written by S. Frisia et al.

• Microsequences de lamines annuelles dans deux stalagmites du massif de Han-Sur-Lesse (Belgique), written by D. Genty et al.

• Petrographic evidence of diagenesis in speleothems, written by S. Frisia

• Diagenetic replacement of aragonite by aragonite in speleothems: Criteria for its recognition in Botswana and Madagascar, written by L.B. Railsback et al.

• Sedimentary recording and dating of seismo-tectonic events by speleothems, written by Y. Quinif and D. Genty

Selected papers and abstracts of the symposium held March 14 through 18, 2007, Postojna, Slovenia.

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Archives of Climate Change in Karst.

Proceedings of the Symposium: Climate Change the Karst Record, IV.

Edited by B. Onac, T. Tamas, S. Constantin, and A. Persoiu.

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Proceedings of the 2003 Epikarst Symposium.

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NOTE: This publication is now out-of-print. We hope to have it as an electronic version soon.

Prepared for the National Cave and Karst Research Institute.

National Park Service.

U. S. Department of the Interior.

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Proceedings of the Symposium on Karst Frontiers: Florida and Related Environments.

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Proceedings of an international workshop held March 18 through 20, 2001.

Laboratoire Souterrain du CNRS, Moulis, Ariege, France.

Proceedings of the symposium held February 24 through 27, 1999 Charlottesville, Virginia.

Extended abstracts and field-trip guide for the symposium held February 13 through 16, 1997, Nashville, Tennessee.

Extended Abstracts of a Conference held at

The Department of Geology

University of Bergen, Norway

August 1-4th 1996

Abstracts and field-trip guide for the symposium held February 16 through 19, 1994, Colorado Springs, Colorado.