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Several parameters have been monitored at Srednja Bijambarska cave in the scope of this study. Temperature, relative humidity, pressure, air velocity, carbon dioxide and radon concentration have been measured in the cave atmosphere while physicochemical analyses have been conducted on the percolating water including determination of flow rate, calcium and magnesium concentration, alkalinity, pH, temperature and specific electric conductivity. Calcite deposition rates on glass plates left under three cave drip sites have been calculated by repeated measurements of plate weight. In this chapter characteristics of sensors and methods used on field and laboratory are presented, as well as the locations of measurements, and where available the estimated errors.
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Milanolo, S. (2016). Materials and Methods. In: Sources and Transport of Inorganic Carbon in the Unsaturated Zone of Karst. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29308-0_3
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