Speleogenesis and secondary cave minerals in quartz-sandstone and quartzite environment
Journal: AMS Dottorato Institutional Doctoral Theses Repository (University of Bologna)
Year: 2014

The main objective of this research is to improve the comprehension of the processes controlling the formation of caves and karst-like morphologies in quartz-rich lithologies (more than 90% quartz), like quartz-sandstones and metamorphic quartzites. In the scientific community the processes actually most retained to be responsible of these formations are explained in the “Arenisation Theory”. This implies a slow but pervasive dissolution of the quartz grain/mineral boundaries increasing the gene