Sentence examples for doline from inspiring English sources

For example, West Texas, western Oklahoma, and eastern New Mexico have extensive areas of doline karst in gypsum with many small caves.

Mostly doline karst with some fluviokarst is found from southern Indiana south along both the east and west flanks of the broad fold of the Cincinnati Arch through eastern and central Kentucky and into Tennessee.

Most important with respect to worldwide occurrence are fluviokarst, doline karst, cone and tower karst, and pavement karst.

The Mississippian karst of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana is quite remarkable because the many long cave systems and large areas of doline karst occur in a layer of limestone slightly more than 150 metres thick.

Other notable karst regions of eastern North America include the Appalachians (specifically the Valley and Ridge and Great Valley provinces as well as the Cumberland and Allegheny plateaus) and Florida, where a raised platform of carbonate rocks has large areas of doline karst and extensive internal drainage through a major limestone aquifer.

Large caves and areas of fluviokarst and doline karst are found there.

In addition to areas of fluviokarst, doline karst, and pavement karst, the karst of the Dinaric Alps region is unique for its large number of poljes.

Sinkhole, also called sink or doline, topographic depression formed when underlying limestone bedrock is dissolved by groundwater.

The karst of Mexico varies from the streamless, low-relief plain of the Yucatán Peninsula to the high plateaus of the interior with their large dolines and deep vertical caves.

This forms an extraordinarily harsh environment of jumbled karst, dolines, rock towers, and seemingly endless ridges of jagged rock, all covered in virtually impenetrable lowland rainforest.

Scattered between the barrows are about 200 elliptical dolines; steep grass-lined pits, some many metres deep, others silted up into shallow dishes.