MECCHIA M.

Meghalaya (NW India) is one of the regions in the world with highest recorded rainfalls. Because of these peculiar climatic conditions and intense solutional weathering, karstic caves are widely reported in the numerous lime- stone areas of this part of India. Likewise, the extremely high rainfall and the tropical monsoon climate have...

Quartz sandstone of the Sarisariñama massif in Venezuela hosts the world biggest collapse dolines in quartz-rich lithologies, with volumes up to some millions of cubic meters. Due to extremely complex logistics required to reach the massif, the genesis of these depressions and of the underlying caves has never been studied in detail. The lack...