Beschreibung:
This book combines field, laboratory and modelling methods to identify, characterize and quantify sources and fluxes within and between the different compartments: water, rock and air.
Introduction.- Site Description.- Materials and Methods.- A Conceptual Model.- Cave Climate.- Carbon Dioxide Sources, Storage and Transport in cave Atmosphere.- Cave Atmosphere Response to Artificial input of Carbon Dioxide.- From Soil to Cave: The Inorganic carbon in Drip water.- Calcite Deposition.- The Isotopic Imprint.- General Conclusions.