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Karst Hydrology - Concepts from the Mammoth Cave Area (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Karst Hydrology - Concepts from the Mammoth Cave Area (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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This volume has its roots in the distant past of more than 20 years
ago, the International Hydrologic Decade (IHD), 1964-1974. One of
the stated goals of the IHD was to promote research into
groundwater situations for which the state of knowledge was
hopelessly inadequate. One of these problem areas was the hydrology
of carbonate terrains. Position papers published early in the IHD
emphasized the special problems of karst; carbonate terrains were
supposed to receive a substantial amount of attention during the
IHD. There were indeed many new contributions from European
colleagues but, unfortunately, in the United States the good
intentions were not backed up by much in the way of federal
funding. Some good and interesting work was published, particularly
by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), but in the academic
community the subject languished. About this same time the Cave
Research Foundation (CRF), organized in 1957 to promote the
systematic exploration, survey, and scientific study of the great
cave systems of Mammoth Cave National Park, was casting about for a
broader scope for its research activities. Up until that time, CRF
research had been largely restricted to detailed mineralogical and
geological investigations within the caves, with the main part of
the effort concentrated on exploration and survey. The decision to
investigate the hydrology required a certain enlargement of vision
because investigators then had to consider the entire karst
drainage basin rather than isolated fragments of cave passage.
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