The Ankarana Plateau in Madagascar : tsingy, caves, volcanoes and sapphires /

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Author / Creator:Gilli, Éric, author.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
©2019
Description:1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Language:English
Series:Cave and karst systems of the world
Cave and karst systems of the world.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11780878
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ISBN:9783319998794
331999879X
3319998781
9783319998787
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: GILLI, ERIC. ANKARANA PLATEAU IN MADAGASCAR. [Place of publication not identified], SPRINGER, 2018 3319998781