fengcong karst

fengcong karst
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A Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology with Special Reference to Environmental Karst Hydrology. . 2002.

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  • fengcong —    ; fengcong karst    (Chinese.)    1. A karst, conspicuous in China, that is identified by its clustered limestone hills. Fengcong (pronounced ‘fungston’), which translates as ‘peak cluster’, is a mature karst normally developed during long… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

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  • tower karst —    , towerkarst, turmkarst    1. A spectacular variety of karst landscape dominated by steep or vertical sided limestone towers each 30–300m high. By far the most extensive and best developed tower karst is the Guangxi province of southern China …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • cone karst —    1. A karst landscape dominated by low conical (or hemispherical) hills that forms only in wet tropical climates. The type example is Gunung Sewu in Java. Individual hills are remarkably uniform, each some few hundred meters in diameter and… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • tower karst —     a) A type of tropical karst topography characterized by isolated, steep sided, residual limestone hills or ridges with vertical or near vertical walls, and may be relatively flat topped; commonly surrounded by a flat alluvial plain or lagoons …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

  • Halong Bay — Infobox World Heritage Site Name = Hạ Long Bay State Party = VIE Type = Natural Criteria = vii, viii ID = 672 Region = Asia Pacific Year = 1994 Session = 18th Extension = 2000 Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/672/Ha Long Bay ( vi. Vịnh Hạ… …   Wikipedia

  • fenglin —    ; fenglin karst    (Chinese.)    1. A karst, conspicuous in China, that is identified by its isolated limestone hills. Fenglin (pronounced ‘funglin’) translates from Chinese as ‘peak forest’, and is distinguished from fengcong. Both fenglin… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

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