Book Review: Advances in Hypogene Karst Studies
Journal: Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
Year: 2011

For most of the past several centuries, students of caves and karst were satisfied with a single, underlying conceptual model. Meteoric water interacted with soluble bedrock, usually limestone or dolomite, sometimes gypsum, and occasionally salt. Differential dissolution on exposed land surfaces produced the characteristic karst landforms: closed depressions, sculptured bedrock, and residual hills of unusual shape. Infiltration of meteoric water through closed depressions and sinking streams dev