Hypogene Imprints in Coastal Karst Caves from Mallorca Island (Western Mediterranean): A Review of the Current Knowledge on their Morphological Features and Speleogenesis
Journal: Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida)
Year: 2016

Among the abundant caves existing in the southern and eastern coasts of Mallorca Island (western Mediterranean), a few of them exhibit solutional features and deposits presumably related to hypogene basal recharge. The caves were formed in calcarenites whose ages range from Upper Miocene (Tortonian reef deposits) to Middle Pleistocene (eolianites) which form a fringing postorogenic belt, mainly deposited over Mesozoic folded and thrusted carbonate deposits. The hydrogeological setting correspond