karst landscape
11cone karst — 1. A karst landscape dominated by low conical (or hemispherical) hills that forms only in wet tropical climates. The type example is Gunung Sewu in Java. Individual hills are remarkably uniform, each some few hundred meters in diameter and… …
12Moravian Karst — (Moravský Kras) Protected Area Punkevní jeskyně, one of the most popular caves in the region …
13classical karst — Originally the region called Kras in Slovenia, which gave its name to the karst landscape. Used in this sense about 95% of the classical karst lies in Slovenia, with the remaining 5% extending to Italy. A slightly different area was covered by …
14cockpit karst — A karst landscape dominated by subsurface drainage and serrate or star shaped depressions (cockpits) that range widely in size and density but typically are considerably larger than sinkholes (dolines), and are separated by intermediate… …
15Eagles' Nests Landscape Park — Eagle Nests Landscape Park Park Krajobrazowy Orlich Gniazd IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape) Castle in Teczyn on the …
16bare karst — A type of karst landscape lacking soil cover and where dissolution of carbonate rocks to form karst landforms occurs primarily on the exposed bedrock surface [9]. See naked karst …
17gypsum karst — A karst landscape developed on, or perhaps above, gypsum or similar evaporite rock sequences. Dissolution of gypsum by ground water in buried, interstratal, situations is common and the effects of such dissolution may be expressed at the land… …
18Dinaric Karst — The extensive expanse of karst landscape stretching from Italy, across the whole of southern Slovenia and Croatia, into parts of south west Bosnia and across Montenegro, ultimately extending into Albania and Greece [9] …
19buried karst — Karst topography entirely buried by relatively younger post rock or sediments and not part of the contemporary landscape [17]. Synonyms: fossil karst; (French.) karst couvert, karst fossile, paleokarst; ( German.) bedeckter Karst, Urkarst;… …
20mantled karst — Karst topography that is wholly or partly covered by a relatively thin veneer of post karst rock or sediment and is part of the contemporary landscape [17]. See also buried karst; covered karst …
