Definition of karst
: an irregular limestone region with sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns
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The normally moist soil of Florida has a stabilizing effect on karst.
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Housed in a pastel-yellow colonial building opposite a 16th-century church, its entrance is flanked by tall vases, depicting sampan gliding between karst hills.
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The retention ponds built on those courses can leak into the karst and trigger sinkholes.
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For long stretches, hikers plod across karst limestone slabs jutting out at tenuous angles.
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Many of the world's clothes hangers originate in two-story warehouses on the road to Lipu, a steamy town in southern China where the river flows between towering karst formations and vendors sell the sweetest taro.
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These other users included Nonn, who decided to pursue a PhD in environmental science with a focus on the biology of rare endemic geckos living at limestone karsts.
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Foliage clings, improbably, to dramatic karst formations that rise out of the sea like shards of green glass on Misool’s edge.
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Initial examination of the karst feature in early February showed that the limestone bed that forms the cave ceiling was scored and thinner where the utility lines were installed.
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Origin and Etymology of karst
German, from Slovene dialect or Croatian dialect kras, kars, type of rock, region composed of such rock
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