A multi-method approach for speleogenetic research on alpine karst caves. Torca La Texa shaft, Picos de Europa (Spain)

Ballesteros, Daniel; Jiménez-Sánchez, Montserrat; Giralt, Santiago; Garcı́a-Sansegundo, Joaquı́n; Meléndez-Asensio, Mónica

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.02.026

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“…In the north and east of the region, this bedrock is covered by a discordant Mesozoic and Tertiary cover (Alonso et al, 1996). The elevation of the Cantabrian Range during the Alpine Orogeny together with the climatic factors conditioned the development of the actual relief through the operation of fluvial incision (Jiménez-Sánchez et al, 2014), karst processes (Ballesteros et al, 2015) and glacial activity (Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al, 2015) during the Quaternary. Together with fluvial and coastal processes, slope instabilities are the most widespread phenomena of the current geomorphological dynamics.…”

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A spatio-temporal landslide inventory for the NW of Spain: BAPA database

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A spatio-temporal landslide inventory for the NW of Spain: BAPA database

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“…Previous speleogenetic studies performed in areas where large cave systems occur have been used to construct landscape evolutionary models (e.g., Ballesteros et al, 2015). Menikio in northern Greece is a karstic massif that lies in a tectonically-active area and, therefore, is ideal to test our proposed methodology.…”

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“…Menikio in northern Greece is a karstic massif that lies in a tectonically-active area and, therefore, is ideal to test our proposed methodology. Previous speleogenetic studies performed in areas where large cave systems occur have been used to construct landscape evolutionary models (e.g., Ballesteros et al, 2015). In contrast, our methodological approach can be also applied in areas where relatively small caves are developed (i.e.…”

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From subsurface to surface: a multidisciplinary approach to decoding uplift histories in tectonically‐active karst landscapes

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We present an integrated study of subsurface and surficial karst landforms to unravel the uplift history of karst landscape in a tectonically‐active area. To this end, we apply a multidisciplinary approach by combining cave geomorphology and Th/U dating of speleothems with remote sensing plus geophysical imaging of surface landforms. We use as an example Mt. Menikio in northern Greece where four caves share well‐defined epiphreatic/shallow phreatic characteristics that are related to the distribution of surface and buried doline fields and provide evidence for three distinct water table stillstands (e.g. expressed as cave levels) now lying at ~130 m, ~800 m and ~1600 m a.m.s.l. Our dating constraints delimit the age of the lower water table stillstand prior to 77 ka ago and imply a maximum rate of relative base level drop of 0.45 mma‐1, which is consistent with relative tectonic uplift rate estimates along currently active normal faults. We interpret the elevation of the higher water table stillstands to reflect earlier phases of uplift related to the regional tectonic events associated with the development of the North Anatolian Fault and the Northern Aegean area. Our analysis shows that the combined study of epiphreatic/shallow phreatic caves and surficial karst landforms together, is a robust way to investigate the uplift history of a karst landscape in a tectonically‐active setting. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…From a geological point of view, the bedrock in the study area consists of a strongly folded and fractured Permian and Paleozoic basement [27,28] covered in the centre and north-eastern areas by a discordant Tertiary cover [29]. The elevation of the Cantabrian Range during the Alpine Orogeny [30] and the climatic variations during the Quaternary have contributed to shape the bedrock through the operation of fluvial incision [31], karst processes [32] and glacial activity [33].…”

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