vauclusian

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• vauclusian spring —    See spring, vauclusian …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• vauclusian rising —    See spring, vauclusian …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• spring, vauclusian —    ; rising, vauclusian    1. A type of rising or spring where direct drainage from the phreas flows up a flooded cave passage under pressure to emerge in daylight. The term is best applied where water rises from a vertical or very steep bedrock… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• Bourg-Saint-Andéol — French commune nomcommune=Bourg Saint Andéol région=Rhône Alpes département=Ardèche arrondissement=Privas canton=Bourg Saint Andéol insee=07042 cp=07700 maire=Serge Martinez mandat=2001 2008 intercomm=Rhône aux gorges de l Ardèche… …   Wikipedia

• gushing spring —    See spring, vauclusian …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• karst —    (Internationally used term, originally the German form of the Slavic word kras or krš, meaning a bleak waterless place; it is the German name for a district east of Trieste having such terrane.) A terrane, generally underlain by limestone or… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• ojo, ojo de agua —    (Spanish.) An artesian spring in limestone regions, especially one forming a small pond; a vauclusian spring [10] …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• rising —    1. The resurgence of an underground watercourse, usually at the base margin of the calcareous massif, although in the instance of a blind valley the rising has eroded headwards for some distance. Each rising accounts for the collective… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• spring —    1. Point where underground water emerges on to the surface, not exclusive to limestone, but generally larger in cavernous rocks. The image of a trickle of water springing from a hillside hardly matches that of a vast cave pouring forth a river …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• spring, boiling —    1. An uncommon type of vauclusian spring, where the flow is large enough in a constricted site to form turbulence on the surface of the resurgence pool [9].    2. (Jamaican.) A. variable discharge artesian spring in which hydrostatic pressure… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology