The Ankarana Plateau in Madagascar
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-99878-7 (ISBN)
The book describes the Ankarana plateau and its cave network in Madagascar, depicting the natural environment of the Plateau as well as the natural processes which created the cave network of more than 100km with many galleries, some are very large and draped with different cave formations and underground rivers are inhabited with crocodiles and giant eels.This place is famous for its surface landscape formed with tsingy, natural needles formed by the weathering of limestone. The Ankarana is surrounded by native Madagascan rain forest inhabited with lemurs and it was a natural shelter for the Ankarana people whose kings were buried in caves. The cave system has been partially explored since the sixties and exploration is still in progress. The book includes several maps (geology, topography, hydrology), the survey of the caves and a brief description of the Ankarana Kingdom.
Presentation.- Geography.- Fauna and Flora of the Ankarana.- Geology and Hydrogeology.- Speleology in the Ankarana.- Caves of the Northern Ankarana.- Caves of the Mananjeba Buttes.- Caves of the Southern Buttes.- Others Caves Near the Ankarana Plateau.- The People of the Ankarana.- The Tourism in the Ankarana.- General Bibliography.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.11.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Cave and Karst Systems of the World |
| Zusatzinfo | XXVI, 162 p. 183 illus., 134 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 722 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Schlagworte | Ankarana National Park • Ankarana Reserve • Caves and Karst in Madagascar • Limestone Plateau • Limestone tsingy • Madagascar sapphires • Tsingy de Bemaraha • Volcanism-induced Karst Landforms |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-99878-1 / 3319998781 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-99878-7 / 9783319998787 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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