Authors: Petar Milanović
Publish Date: 2006/07/05
Volume: 51, Issue: 5, Pages: 673-674
Abstract
Karst terrains and karst phenomena represent great scientific and engineering challenges for geologists geomorphologists speleologists biologists chemists environmentalists hydrologists and many others From time immemorial these phenomena have unusual fascination for local inhabitants and also for scientistsIn the last decades of the 19th and first decades of the 20th century the general approach in karst investigations was primarily scientific and theoretical However due to karst terrains producing a variety of resources intensive construction of different manmade structures began in the second part of the 20th century Various types of water resources developments have been carried out in many karst regions of the world The price of success was in many cases expensive failure Manmade reservoirs that were impossible to fill water intake that did not yield the expected water quantity water breakin into excavations and unexpected environmental problems contributed in
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