Nou plànol topogràfic de les Coves d’Artà (Capdepera, Mallorca)
[eng] The famous Coves d’Artà, in the municipality of Capdepera (Mallorca), were the first to be visited by tourists on the island, already in the second half of the 19th century. Its formation is estimated to have started about 15 million years ago by phreatic dissolution processe...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de las Islas Baleares |
| Repositorio: | Biblioteca Digital de les Illes Balears |
| OAI Identifier: | papersSocietatEspeleologica:PapersSEB_2021vol004p047 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/oai-site/collect/papersSocietatEspeleologica/index/assoc/PapersSE/B_2021vo/l004p047.dir/PapersSEB_2021vol004p047.pdf http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/library/collection/papersSocietatEspeleologica/document/PapersSEB_2021vol004p047 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Speleology Caves -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Majorca (Artà) Speleology -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Periodicals |
| Sumario: | [eng] The famous Coves d’Artà, in the municipality of Capdepera (Mallorca), were the first to be visited by tourists on the island, already in the second half of the 19th century. Its formation is estimated to have started about 15 million years ago by phreatic dissolution processes, taking advantage of the bedding planes and an important fault that affected the Jurassic rocks. It has undergone breakdown and readjustments of the vaults and important chemical cave deposits to reach its current state. The cave is of great interest for its spectacular and variegated speleothems. Among other interesting aspects, it has an unusually large number of shields, and several paleolevels of phreatic overgrowths on speleothems (POS) that recently have been dated as Upper Miocene and Pliocene. A new topographic survey is presented in this article that includes all the areas known to date, comprising the Cova Nova, adding as well a detailed description of the whole cave complex. The complete development of the cave is set at 1,100 m and the maximum depth at 33 m. |
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