karst

Examples

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• It's made up of karst limestone formations.

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• The stony, rugged land displays the classic erosional features of a karst landscape.

  Academic text (1997)

• The dramatic karst peaks along the nearby Li River are a big tourist draw, while the hotel itself has comfortable, simple rooms.

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• This vast karst landscape of limestone plateaus and more than 700 caves is home to the world's highest stalagmite.

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• The limestone bedrock is easily dissolved over time, creating karst features such as caves, sinkholes, and complex underground drainage systems.

  Academic text (2011)

• The Dinaric karst, highly porous limestone highlands, form a natural border between the inland of the Balkan Peninsula and the Dalmatian coast.

  Academic text (1993)

• Marble is relatively rare in nature, and as a carbonate rock, it is subject to karst formation and subsurface drainage, leaving little surface runoff to deliver sediment to streams and eventually to the coast.

  Academic text (2008)

• The stony, rugged land displays the classic erosional features of a karst landscape.

• The uplands are covered with karst features such as dolines and steep hills.

• Narrow, rugged, and often a cliff-hanger, the palmetto-lined trail showcases the karst terrain of Suwannee at its best.

Synonyms

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karstic

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• Specialized

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Landscapes that form when water wears away certain rocks, often with caves

has the same meaning but appears as the base form including caves and sinkholes

Surface Forms

Etymology