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Tectonic Inception In Caledonide Marbles, Trevor Faulkner

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A fundamental difference between caves in sedimentary lime- stones and those formed in a repeatedly-glaciated 40000 km2 region in central Scandinavia that contains over 1000 individual marble outcrops and has nearly 1000 recorded karst caves is the metamorphic grade of the karst bedrock and its negligible primary porosity. Allied to this is the fine-scale foliation and consequent lack of ‘bedding-plane’ partings. Indeed, the foliation is commonly vertical in the western part of the study area, where sub-horizontal openings must be along joints or other fractures. The deepest cave is only 180 m deep, despite outcrop vertical ranges reaching over 900 …