Abstract:With a mining history of more than a thousand years, the Zibo area is rich in coal. Having a big thickness, a gentle occurrence and a widespread emergence, the Ordovician limestone beds in the area are not only the water-supply beds benefitting agriculture and industry, but also the water-seeping ones threatening coal mining.Seepage has become the major problem in the Zibo mining district. In this paper the author probes into the vertical zoning of blind karst in the Zibo area in order to provide the instru...