karst landscape

  • 21Eramosa Karst — Infobox Protected area name = Eramosa Karst Conservation Area iucn category = caption = Entrance of Nexus Cave. base width = 250 locator x = locator y = location = Canada nearest city = Hamilton, Ontario lat degrees=43 |lat minutes=11 |lat… …

    Wikipedia

  • 22interstratal karst —    ; interstratal karstification    1. Features formed by the dissolutional removal of all or part of a buried rock unit. Interstratal karst features are common within highly soluble evaporite rocks such as gypsum and halite, and may be equally… …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 23Slovak Karst — The Slovak Karst ( sk. Slovenský kras) is one of the mountain ranges of the Slovenské rudohorie Mountains in the Carpathians in southern Slovakia. It consists of a complex of huge karst plains and plateaus. Since 1973 it was a protected landscape …

    Wikipedia

  • 24Slovak Karst National Park — Infobox protected area | name = Slovak Karst National Park Národný park Slovenský kras iucn category = II caption = Zádielska tiesňava canyon locator x = locator y = location = South East Slovakia, Slovak Karst mountain range nearest city = lat… …

    Wikipedia

  • 25exhumed karst —    A karstic outcrop which has been exposed by the erosion of an allochthonous cover; there is an implication that karstification (partial or complete) had preceded the removal of the cover [20].    Mantled karst or buried karst which has been… …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 26pinnacle karst —    1. Tropical karst characterized by vertical rock blades fretted sharped by dissolution. It is practically indistinguishable from arête karst and tsingi, and includes the varieties known as shilin. The Pinnacles in the Mulu karst of Saraway… …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 27arête and pinnacle karst —    A landscape of naked reticulated raw topped ridges having almost vertical slopes and a relief of as much as 120 meters. The ridges rise above forest covered corridors and depressions. Found in New Guinea at elevations of 2,000 meters and more… …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 28Dunajské luhy Protected Landscape Area — CHKO Dunajské luhy IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape) Floodplains and forests near Bratislava s b …

    Wikipedia

  • 29polygonal karst —    1. A karst area where the surface is completely pitted with closed depressions, the divides of which form a crudely polygonal network. Especially common in humid tropical cone karst terrain, but also found in well formed temperate doline karst …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 30sinkhole karst —    A landscape dominated by subsurface drainage and sinkholes (dolines) that range widely in sizes and density; the most common type of karst in upland areas of temperate regions (e.g., Highland Rim of TN, northern FL, southwestern MO, etc.);… …

    Glossary of landform and geologic terms