Examples of Karst terrain in a sentence
Karst terrain is generally formed over limestone and dolomite formations.
Unstable areas can include poor foundation conditions, areas susceptible to mass movements, and Karst terrain.
Karst terrain means areas where karst topography, with its characteristic surface and subterranean features, is developed as the result of dissolution of limestone, dolomite, or other soluble rock.
While information contained in these guidelines is directed more to those sinkholes located in the Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province, the same considerations should be applied to sinkholes located in other areas of the state.• Karst terrain is characterized by closed depressions (sinkholes), caves, and underground drainage resulting from the solutions of the calcium and/or magnesium carbonates.
Karst terrain occurs throughout the U.S., including areas of Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Iowa, New Mexico and Virginia.