Paleokarst

Abstract

Karst is as dramatic a feature of the earth's sur- face as it is unique and complex. The manifold and convolute landforms, the complicated and delicately adorned caves, the bizarre drainage systems and collapse structures have few an- ologs in other kinds of terrains. But these fea- tures are only the most obvious in an array of surface and subsurface structures which range in size down to the submicroscopic and com- prise systems that are only partly understood- systems that, quite uniquely, form almost en- tirely by dissolution. Aims