carbonate karst

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• Karst topography — is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. Due to subterranean drainage, there may be very limited surface water, even to the absence of all rivers and… …   Wikipedia

• Carbonate rock — Carbonate rocks are a class of sedimentary rocks composed primarily of carbonate minerals. The two major types are limestone and dolomite, composed of calcite (CaCO3) and the mineral dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2) respectively. Chalk and tufa are also… …   Wikipedia

• Karst fenster — is a geomorphic feature formed from the dissolution of carbonate bedrock where a spring emerges then the discharge abruptly disappears into a sinkhole.ee also* Karst topography …   Wikipedia

• Karst — Turmkarst Landschaft, Guilin (China) Pinnac …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• karst —    (Internationally used term, originally the German form of the Slavic word kras or krš, meaning a bleak waterless place; it is the German name for a district east of Trieste having such terrane.) A terrane, generally underlain by limestone or… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• Karst — Kạrst1 〈m. 1; Geol.〉 Gebirge aus durchlässigen, wasserlöslichen Gesteinen (Kalk, Gips), die durch Oberflächen u. Grundwasser ausgelaugt werden [<mhd., ahd. karst; vermutl. verwandt mit kehren „fegen“; → Karren1] Kạrst2 〈m. 1〉 Breithacke,… …   Universal-Lexikon

• karst — karstic, adj. /kahrst/, n. Geol. an area of limestone terrane characterized by sinks, ravines, and underground streams. [1900 05; < G, generic use of Karst, name of limestone plateau north of Trieste] * * * ▪ geology       terrain usually… …   Universalium

• covered karst —    1. A fossil or currently developing karst in karst limestone which underlies superficial deposits or other rock, and which may produce landforms at the surface which reflect subsurface karstification [19]; contrasted with naked karst, which is …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• interstratal 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

• permafrost karst —    A nonkarst term. A pseudokarst developed in areas of permafrost due to melting of ice and frozen ground in a manner superficially similar to the solution of carbonate material in water. A general term embracing intrapermafrost karst,… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• syngenetic karst —    1. Karst developed contemporaneously with the lithification of the formation, as in eolian calcarenite where lithification and karstification of dune sands may proceed simultaneously [10].    2. Karst landforms that developed upon young,… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology