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What are karst reservoirs?

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What are karst reservoirs?

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The term karst has been applied in a wide variety of conflicting and confusing ways across numerous technical disciplines. Karst has been used to designate both specific landforms (including subterranean landforms) and the geographic regions characterized by those landforms (Pers. comm. M. Esteban 2004). Esteban and Klappa (1983) considered karst to be a diagenetic facies developed as an overprint on subaerially exposed carbonate bodies, whereas Choquette and Pray (1971) equate the term karst to the development of caverns, channels and other specific nonfabric selective porosity. Karst can be associated with porosity/permeability enhancement and also destruction through the processes of carbonate dissolution and carbonate precipitation (Tucker & Wright 1990). The term “karst reservoirs” has therefore the potential to take on a wide range of meanings. For the bulk of industry workers karst reservoirs are those reservoirs that have permeability and or storage properties developed through