The role of sandstone in the development of an Ozark karst system, south-central Missouri
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Published:January 01, 2006
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Randall C. Orndorff, David J. Weary, Richard W. Harrison, 2006. "The role of sandstone in the development of an Ozark karst system, south-central Missouri", 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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Cave, spring, and sinkhole development in the Ozarks of south-central Missouri is placed in a geologic framework through detailed geologic mapping. Geologic mapping shows that initial dissolution and inception of cave development is concentrated just beneath sandstone beds within Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician dolostone. Although rocks of the Ozarks have systematic and pervasive vertical joints, the development of karst conduits is controlled by bedding planes and stratigraphic variability. In the Salem Plateau of south-central Missouri, sinkholes occur in the lower part of the Ordovician Roubidoux Formation, where sinkholes are rimmed with and contain sandstone that has collapsed into voids...
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Perspectives on Karst Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Geochemistry - A Tribute Volume to Derek C. Ford and William B. White

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- artesian waters
- carbonate rocks
- caves
- cementation
- clastic rocks
- diagenesis
- dolostone
- dye tracers
- fractures
- geochemistry
- ground water
- hydrochemistry
- joints
- karst
- karst hydrology
- Lower Ordovician
- mapping
- Missouri
- mixing
- Ordovician
- orientation
- Ozark Mountains
- Paleozoic
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- sinkholes
- solution
- solution features
- speleothems
- springs
- style
- United States
- Gasconade Formation
- south-central Missouri
- Roubidoux Formation
- Salem Plateau
- Gunter Sandstone Member
- Alley Spring
- Ozark National Scenic Waterways