"Cave Investigation" ed. by Savas Karabulut and Mualla Cengiz Cinku

This book will be useful to students and researchers as well as to earth scientists, archeologist, biologist, natural sciences, and other experts in a other related of disciplines.

Cave investigation is one of the most interesting research field in natural and earth sciences, showing a rapid development with technological progress. It coincides with a number of scientific disciplines to address the early human histrory, habitats of living lives and specimens.
The volume consists of three sections sorted thematically, each focusing on a certain aspect. The book presents results on the determination and definition of caves discussed by means of geographic, geophysical, and geological applications. Geomorphometric analysis using GIS and laser scanning, the importance of electric tomography method in cave detection, the use of groundwater sources in agricultural areas, and the habitats of bats and species are studied on several cave studies.


Contents
1 Characterization of Macro- and Micro-Geomorphology of Cave Channel from High-Resolution 3D Laser Scanning Survey: Case Study of Gomantong Cave in Sabah, Malaysia
2 Aspects of Cave Data Use in a GIS
3 Bats and Caves: Activity and Ecology of Bats Wintering in Caves
4 Important Caves in Turkish Thrace for Bats: Dupnisa Cave System and Koyunbaba Cave
5 Investigation of Water Quality in the Agricultural Area of Lithuanian Karst Region
6 ERT and the Location of Mining Cavities in Anisotropic Media: A Field Example