An Overview of Subsurface Karst Features Associated with Geological Studies in Malaysia

Zeinab Bakhshipouri

Mountainous Terrain Development Research Center
Department of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia; Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
e-mail: azi_geology@yahoo.com

Husaini Omar

Mountainous Terrain Development Research Center
Department of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia; Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
e-mail: Husaini@eng.upm.edu.my

Zenoddin B. M. Yousof

Mountainous Terrain Development Research Center
Department of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia; Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
e-mail: zmy@eng.upm.edu.my

Vahed Ghiasi

Mountainous Terrain Development Research Center
Department of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia; Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
e-mail: Ghiasi_upm@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

This paper presented the karst features related to geotechnical issues. This study contains an overview of karst terrain and limestone in Malaysia. There are unalloyed karst landscapes in many parts of the world, but most of the time landscapes are formed by a multitude of processes. The intellectual capacity of the dissolution processes, that be active both at the surface and subsurface, has developed quickly in the last fully century, Karst topography is a landscape of characteristic suspension patterns often noticeable by subsurface drainages. Limestone, with its low calcium carbonate content, is easily dissolved in the acids produced by natural materials.

Keywords: Karst, Limestone, Surface, Subsurface, Landscape, Malaysia.

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