Alpine karst

The Lime Creek drainage is an alpine karst system developed in Mississippian Leadville Limestone on the west slope of the Sawatch Range, approximately 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Aspen, Colorado (Fig. 1). The mapped area is approximately 23 km (9 mi ), at elevations between 2,740 and 3,350 m (9,000 to 11,000 ft). The area is bounded by tributary valleys of the Fryingpan River on the north, south, and and west. The eastern extent of the study area is defined by uplifted and exposed Precambrian granite, gneiss, and schist (Fig. 2). 

Burger, P.A., 1998, Alpine Karst Development and Speleogenesis in the Lime Creek Hydrologic System, Eagle County, Colorado [Master s thesis], Colorado School of Mines, 59 p. 

Ford, D.C. 1979, A review of the alpine karst in the southern Rocky Mountains of Canada, National Speleological Society Bulletin, 41 3, pp. 53-65. 

Habic, P., 1992, Les phenomenes paleokarstiques du karst alpin et dinarique en Slovenie. In Karst et evolutions climatiques hommage q Jean Nicod, Salomon, J.-N. and Maire, R., eds.. Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, pp. 412-429. 

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