Perspectives on Karst Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Geochemistry - A Tribute Volume to Derek C. Ford and William B. White

Caves of Niue Island, South Pacific: Speleothems and water geochemistry
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Published:January 01, 2006
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Paul Aharon, Michael Rasbury, Valeriu Murgulet, 2006. "Caves of Niue Island, South Pacific: Speleothems and water geochemistry", Perspectives on Karst Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Geochemistry - A Tribute Volume to Derek C. Ford and William B. White, Russell S. Harmon, Carol M. Wicks
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The high carbonate island of Niue has attracted the attention of scientists since the early European exploration of the South Pacific, but its extensive karst and numerous caves have so far received little attention. Our investigation recognizes two main types of caves on Niue: (1) steeply inclined, terraced, flank-margin caves that formed at the seaward edge of a migrating freshwater lens and that breach the vertical cliffs on the leeward side of the island, and (2) flat-roofed, water-table caves consisting of interconnected passages that developed at the paleo–water table and contain dissolution features caused by alternating vadose and phreatic conditions....
- aquifers
- C-13/C-12
- calcite
- carbon
- carbonates
- caves
- cliffs
- D/H
- El Nino Southern Oscillation
- eustasy
- fresh water
- geochemistry
- geomorphology
- ground water
- habit
- hydrochemistry
- hydrodynamics
- hydrogen
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- karst
- meteoric water
- Niue
- O-18/O-16
- Oceania
- oxygen
- paleoseismicity
- Polynesia
- solutes
- solution features
- speleothems
- stable isotopes
- stalagmites
- tracers
- unsaturated zone
- water supply
- water table
- water wells
- Avaiki Cave