Lagoa Santa karst : Brazil's iconic karst region /

Lagoa Santa karst : Brazil's iconic karst region /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cham : Springer, 2020.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Cave and karst systems of the world Cave and karst systems of the world.
Subject:	Karst -- Brazil -- Lagoa Santa. Karst -- Brazil -- Lagoa Santa -- History. Karst. Brazil -- Lagoa Santa. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12603326

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Other authors / contributors:	Auler, Augusto S. Pessoa, Paulo Fernando P.
ISBN:	9783030359409 3030359409 3030359395 9783030359393 9783030359416 3030359417 9783030359423 3030359425
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Summary:	This book discusses the Lagoa Santa Karst, which has been internationally known since the pioneering studies of the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the early 1800s. It covers the speleogenesis, geology, vegetation, fauna, hydrogeology, geomorphology, and anthropogenic use of the Lagoa Santa Karst and is the first English-language book on this major karst area. The area, which has been at the heart of the debate on the origin and age of human colonization in the Americas, is characterized by a classical and scenic karst landscape with limestone cliffs, karst lakes and karst plains, in addition to numerous solution dolines. More than 1,000 caves have been documented in the area, many with significant archeological and paleontological value. Despite its great importance, the Lagoa Santa Karst faces severe environmental threats due to limestone mining and the expansion of the metropolis of Belo Horizonte and its surrounding towns. The growing recognition of the areas remarkable significance has led to increasing concern, and a number of protected areas have now been established, improving the conservation status of this landmark karst area.
Other form:	Print version: 3030359395 9783030359393
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-030-35940-9

Table of Contents:

Introduction
200 years of karst research in the Lagoa Santa area
Geology of the Lagoa Santa Karst
The vegetation of the karst region
Fauna of the Lagoa Santa Karst
Hydrological behaviour of karst lakes
Karst soils and their relationship to geomorphology
Karst landforms
Karst groundwater routes and dynamics
Speleogenesis in the Lagoa Santa Karst.