Speleologický výskum Važeckého krasu

Year, pages: 1962, 264 - 293

The author gives au account of the karst formations m the neighbourhood the village of Važec on the northern slopes of the Low Tatra. The karst terrain is built up of limestone and dolomites of the middle trias, reifling limestones and eocene limestones. The surface relief represents a miocene peneplain the height of which is 1020 m. There are found here earth-covered dolines with ponores al the bottom, karst springs, 2 ravines of the aven type and dry. caňon-like valleys. The underground formations are represented by 3 caves. The higgest of these is the Važec Cave with a length of 100 m. It has been formed by the doline flow of the While Váh along the teotonic cracks in the younger pleistocene. It has a rich white limestone stalactite-stalagmite decoration.

Droppa, A. 1962. Speleologický výskum Važeckého krasu. In Geografický časopis, vol. 14, no.4, pp. 264-293. 0016-7193.

Droppa, A. (1962). Speleologický výskum Važeckého krasu. Geografický časopis, 14(4), 264-293. 0016-7193.

Publisher: Geografický ústav SAV/Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences