Applied Geophysics for Karst and Sinkhole Investigation: The Dead Sea and other regions

By Anatoly Legchenko, Lev V Eppelbaum, Michael Ezersky, et al.

This book begins by presenting an overview of the karst problem worldwide, and examines Dead Sea evaporite karst, including its features and methods of investigation, a review of geophysical methods for karst investigation and features of geophysics for investigation of different aspects of the DS karst and sinkholes, respectively. The authors present practically all geophysical methods that have been applied. The book shows the potential of geophysical methods for resolving real problems of karst. The description of different aspects of the problem and justification of the necessity to understand the phenomenon in the relationship with the geology and hydrogeology of specific regions represents one of the main parts of the book.

Key Features

Karst around the world and its investigation

Development of evaporate karst in the Dead Sea shore and the sinkholes problem

Karst detection, and mitigation observed by surface geophysical methods

An overview of the efficiency of surface geophysical methods for karst detection

Contribution of surface geophysical methods to environmental security (natural hazard/karst related hazard)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750336331
• ISBN13: 9780750336338
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"