Study on Roof Safe Thickness of Rock Foundation with Karst Cave and Karst Cave-surrounding Rock Stability

Comparative study between karafto cave and Aqrablu’s Rock Art

In different regions of Iran, numerous rock arts are obtained and the large number of them have been described and studied in various magazines and books. The rock art of Aqrablu in Bokan-Shahindej and karafto cave in Divandarreh, located in West Azerbaijan and Kurdistan provinces, are the valuable petroglyphs in the west and north-west of Iran. This study was based on literature review and fie...

rock engravings of ghalat niloo cave

painted rocks may be considered the oldest manifestation of art in human society. the history of this art is estimated to be more than 30 thousand years. this art has also a long history in iran. this article introduces one of these rock art sites i.e. ghalat niloo which is located in kazeroon county, south-east of ghalat niloo village. the purpose of this study is to identify and determine th...

Paleolithic cave rock art, animal coloration, and specific animal habitats.

Study of the Critical Collapse Cave Span for Fracture-cavity Oil Storage Karst Caves

As the major field in petroleum reserve growth, fractured-vuggy reservoir is the key research in the future. However, in the development of fracture-cavity reservoir, collapse may occur in karst cave which greatly affects the oil well output. In order to forecast the cave collapse before drilling, this work adopts the method of span dichotomy reduction to determine the critical karst collapse o...

Storage and transport in cave seepage- and groundwater in a South German karst system

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract We investigated one of the best-known and second largest karst areas in Germany (Blautopf Catchment) that offers a unique access waters of the unsaturated zone through a large cave system. As tracers for water flow and storage we measured ...