Hypogene Speleogenesis

This book provides an overview of the principal environments, main processes and manifestations of hypogenic speleogenesis, and refines the relevant conceptual framework.  It consolidates the notion of hypogenic karst as one of the two major types of karst systems (the other being epigenetic karst).  Karst is viewed in the context of regional groundwater flow systems which provide the systematic transport and distribution mechanisms needed to produce and maintain the disequilibrium conditions necessary for speleogenesis.