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Evaluation and Quantification of Modern Karst Features as Proxies for Paleokarst Reservoirs
As karst features are buried into the deep subsurface and isolated from the mechanisms that formed them, they turn into paleokarst. Some karst features, such as hypogene and island karst, have a higher probability of being ...
Structural Controls on Megaporosity in Eogenetic Carbonate Rocks: Tinian, CNMI
Tinian and Aguijan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), are volcanic, back arc islands in the western Pacific formed by Pacific Plate subduction under the Philippine Plate. The islands are composed of ...
Inventory and Geometric Analysis of Flank Margin Caves of the Bahamas
Flank margin caves are karst features that develop in the freshwater/saline mixing zone within the carbonate islands of the Bahamas. The flank margin caves that are currently exposed developed during the last interglacial ...
GIS Analysis of the Caves and Karst of the Mariana Islands
The Mariana Islands are a volcanic island chain in the western Pacific Ocean composed of Eocene volcanic cores with a carbonate mantle. Others have classified the cave and karst features into the cave types described in ...
The Caves and Karst of Rota Island, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Rota Island, the southernmost island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, has the types of caves previously documented on the other limestone mantled islands in the Mariana Arc that ...