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  • noun Plural form of karst.

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  • Today's words Word don't know: viewports, karst (but it offers to correct it to "karsts"), cofarming, rebraided, jowled, cowled (I laugh at the coincidence), neurochemicals,

    the lights go down and it's just you up there, getting them to feel like that matociquala 2008

  • The company leverages modern, sophisticated remediation and extraction techniques as well as its large inventory of 3-D seismic data to drill horizontal wells more precisely inside targeted shale formations, avoiding various underground structural chal¬lenges such as karsts and faults.

    IBTimes.com RSS Feed - Politics & Policy 2009

  • Step off the Violet to see emerald lagoons and secret grottoes hidden within the 3,000 limestone karsts, accessed by bamboo boats straight out of a Hollywood backlot.

    Ships for the Hip 2011

  • I visited the cities of Guilin and Yangshuo, both famous for their landscape of karsts.

    a review Renee 2009

  • I visited the cities of Guilin and Yangshuo, both famous for their landscape of karsts.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Renee 2009

  • This terrain is flanked by marine limestone forming low plateaus with a karsts topography.

    Puerto Rico Province (Bailey) 2009

  • While most of the forest on the Tertiary limestone has been destroyed, the spectacular karsts of the Mesozoic limestone and the associated forest patches are more or less intact.

    Madagascar dry deciduous forests 2009

  • These photos were taken outside our village down a rad bike trail, al monte, toward the Maya Mountain karsts.

    A Few of My Favorite Things 2009

  • Yunnan is dotted with karsts, but Shilin is the most spectacular — a limestone statuary of some 75,000 acres, carved 270 million years ago by a retreating sea.

    South of the Clouds 2007

  • Yunnan is dotted with karsts, but Shilin is the most spectacular — a limestone statuary of some 75,000 acres, carved 270 million years ago by a retreating sea.

    South of the Clouds 2007

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