#karstformations — Public Fediverse posts

List of karst areas (Karst 🌍)

Karst topography is a geological formation shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite, but also in gypsum. It has also been documented for weathering-resistant rocks, such as quartzite, given the right conditions. This is an incompl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_karst_areas

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Foiba (Karst 🌍)

A foiba ; plural: foibe or foibas) — jama ) in South Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary — is a type of deep natural sinkhole, doline, or sink, and is a collapsed portion of bedrock above a void. Sinks may be a sheer vertical opening into a cave or a shallow depression of many hectares. They are common in the Karst region shared by Italy and Slovenia, as ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foiba

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Uvala (landform) (Geomorphology 🏞️)

Uvala is originally a local toponym used by people in some regions in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. In geosciences it denotes a closed karst depression, a terrain form usually of elongated or compound structure and of larger size than that of sinkholes. It is a morphological form fr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvala_(landform)

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