Abstract
The Bijambare protected area is located around 25 km north of Sarajevo, and nowadays encompasses 490 ha of coniferous forest and meadows as well as several karst features. The average elevation is between 900 and 950 m. Available climatic data are limited, but based on a few partial sources an average temperature of 6.2 °C and precipitation of 917 mm year−1 can be estimated. At the contact between Triassic impermeable quartz sandstone and limestone, waters from two main streams sink underground before re-emerging at the Orlja spring. In the area there are 8 known caves and, among them, Srednja Bijambarska cave is the longest (533 m of explored passages) and adapted as show cave. Srednja Bijambarska cave has a relatively simple morphology that for the scope of this work can be divided into 4 elements: the entrance section, the main channel, the narrow passage and the “Music hall”.
Material from this chapter has been originally published in Milanolo S, Mulaomerović J (2008) Speleološka istraživanja na području “Zaštićenog pejzaža Bijambare” (Speleological researches on the territory of the “Protected landscape Bijambare”). Naš Krš 40(41):3–24.
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Milanolo, S. (2016). Site Description. In: Sources and Transport of Inorganic Carbon in the Unsaturated Zone of Karst. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29308-0_2
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