Paleokarst

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Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-21 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Characteristics of Dissolutional Cave Systems in Carbonate Rocks....Pages 25-57 Geochemical Patterns of Meteoric Diagenetic Systems and Their Application to Studies of Paleokarst....Pages 58-80 Controls on Mineralogy and Composition of Spelean Carbonates: Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico....Pages 81-101 Breccia-Hosted Lead—Zinc Deposits in Carbonate Rocks....Pages 102-116 Blackened Limestone Pebbles: Fire at Subaerial Unconformities....Pages 117-131 Holocene Overprints of Pleistocene Paleokarst: Bight of Abaco, Bahamas....Pages 132-148 Neptunian Dikes and Fissure Fills: An Overview and....Pages 149-162 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Proterozoic Paleokarst Profile, Dismal Lakes Group, N.W.T., Canada 1 ....Pages 167-182 Early Paleozoic Surface and Subsurface Paleokarst: Middle Ordovician Carbonates, Mingan Islands, Québec....Pages 183-210 Ordovician Knox Paleokarst Unconformity, Appalachians....Pages 211-228 Surface and Subsurface Paleokarst, Silurian Lockport, and Peebles Dolomites, Western Ohio....Pages 229-255 Madison Limestone (Mississippian) Paleokarst: A Geologic Synthesis....Pages 256-277 Late Mississippian Paleokarst and Related Mineral Deposits, Leadville Formation, Central Colorado....Pages 278-305 Paleokarstic Features in Mississippian Limestones, New Mexico....Pages 306-328 Paleokarsts and Paleosols as Indicators of Paleoclimate and Porosity Evolution: A Case Study from the Carboniferous of South Wales....Pages 329-341 Caves and Other Features of Permian Karst in San Andres Dolomite, Yates Field Reservoir, West Texas....Pages 342-363 Paleokarst and Related Pelagic Sediments in the Jurassic of the Subbetic Zone, Southern Spain....Pages 364-384 Sedimentation and Diagenesis Along an Island-Sheltered Platform Margin, El Abra Formation, Cretaceous of Mexico....Pages 385-405 Back Matter....Pages 407-416