karst

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But Zhou warned the country's rapid development and worsening pollution could threaten many biologically rich areas like the karst - a network of limestone sinkholes marked by underground streams and caverns - before further discoveries are made.

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  1. noun An area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns.

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  • The landscape was all karst, said the driver: limestone that had been eroded to produce fissures, underground streams, caverns, and sinkholes. —  AnalogSFF,December2006
  • Landowner partnerships have helped stop sedimentation of streams entering karst areas inhabited by the endangered Ozark cave snail. —  ENS
  • The term "karst" -- a limestone region of underground rivers, gorges, and caves -- originated in Slovenia's Karst plateau between Ljubljana and the Italian border.
  • But Zhou warned the country's rapid development and worsening pollution could threaten many biologically rich areas like the karst - a network of limestone sinkholes marked by underground streams and caverns - before further discoveries are made. —  The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • Anyway, it is really nice here - a very old tropical rainforest and limestone (karst) mountains (the tallest 961 metres - ok, not that tall but it is limestone). —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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  1. German, after the Karst, a limestone plateau near Trieste.

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  1. Cf. Lithuanian karsti, Lettish kārst, grow old: Polish karślak, a stunted tree.
 

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