Open AccessLos lapiaces de agujas de Peña Cabarga : Génesis y significado de una forma original
Author(s) -
Juan Carlos García Codrón
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cuadernos de investigación geográfica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1697-9540
pISSN - 0211-6820
DOI - 10.18172/cig.972
Subject(s) - inheritance (genetic algorithm) , karst , geography , humanities , geology , philosophy , biology , archaeology , biochemistry , gene
Gaudy cone and pinnacle karsts have been exhumed in many points of Northern Spain by open pit mining activities. Usually considered, without a real basis, as a "tropical climate" inheritance, these forms must be explained as result of iron and lead sulphides alteration in an environment with a conjunction of favourable conditions to karst processes in present-day.