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Cave and Karst Systems of Romania

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The chapter presents an updated list of all minerals occurring under various settings in caves from Romania.

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Drs. T. Tămaș, F.L. Forray, and M.-L. Tîrlă who provided relevant cave minerals information. This note is part of the Cave Mineral Database (CAMIDA) project, a collaborative effort of the University of South Florida Libraries, UIS’s Cave Minerals Commission, the Karst Information Portal, “Emil Racoviţă” Institute of Speleology (Romania), and the Karst Research Group at University of South Florida (USA).

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    Bogdan P. Onac

  2. “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Clinicilor 5, 4000006, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Onac, B.P. (2019). Cave Minerals of Romania. 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_53

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