Karst spring
A spring emerging from karstified limestone or glacier.
Point at which an underground stream reaches the surface if stream has no known surface headwaters.
Photo: Werenskjold Glacier (Spitsbergen) Arch. ZBPiM
Types of karst spring:
EXSURGENCE – point at which an underground stream reaches the surface if stream has no known surface headwaters.
RESURGENCE – point at which an underground stream reaches the surface and becomes a surface stream.
In European litereature, the term is reserved for the reemergence of a stream that has earlier sunk upstream.
1- bedrock , 2- glacial or fluvioglacial sediments, 3-glacier, 4- waterfall, 5- glacial stream
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