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Karst and Caves of Romania: A Brief Overview

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Cave and Karst Systems of Romania

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Romania is not regarded as a country with an overabundance of karst resources, although it is home of many unique karst landscapes and caves as documented in the chapters of this book. Karst-prone rocks cover at least 5500 km2 (Fig. 1) representing ~2.3% of the total area of the country (238.397 km2). Worth noting is that the low percentage is mainly because extensive areas in which karst forming rocks exist, are covered by younger, Pliocene, and Quaternary age deposits.

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Dr. M. Ionita is thanked for kindly providing Fig. 2 included in this chapter. We are grateful to Dr. M.-L. Tîrlă who shared with us the distribution map of evaporates within Romania.

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  1. Karst Research Group, School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., NES 107, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Bogdan P. Onac

  2. “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Clinicilor 5, 400006, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Bogdan P. Onac

  3. “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Calea 13 Septembrie 11, Sector 5, 050711, Bucharest, Romania

    Cristian Goran

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Onac, B.P., Goran, C. (2019). Karst and Caves of Romania: A Brief Overview. In: Ponta, G., Onac, B. (eds) Cave and Karst Systems of Romania. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90747-5_4

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