Signs of intense earthquakes in karst areas (with special reference to the Mountain Crimea)

Abstract

Mountain karst massifs have some special features which determine passing of seismic waves. Paleoseismic information may be obtained from a number of karst features, such as breaks and displacements of the cave passages, distorted limestone blocks, corrosion-gravitation landforms, debaris resulting from collapse and chemogenic sediments precipitates from water solutions in the karst cavities.