How to Use karst in a Sentence
karst
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The retention ponds built on those courses can leak into the karst and trigger sinkholes.
—Chris Bodenner, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2011
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But thermokarst is far more unstable than limestone karst.
—Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
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There are 1,474 karst features throughout Camp Bullis, ranging from small cracks and crevices to slits in the earth, that deposit water into the recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer.
—Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
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The Edwards Plateau is a land of karst, a term for rock, typically limestone, dissolved into caves and pits.
—Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2016
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Start the day early on a long-tail boat and savor your breakfast in the center of one of these towering karsts, kayak through mangroves, and hop around to the nearby islets.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 23 May 2019
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The karsts are full of nooks and crannies that have nurtured highly specialized plants and animals found nowhere else.
—Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
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Enshi contains a karst cave system with numerous bats in its 37 miles of passages.
—Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
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Below ground level, nearly half of Slovenia is composed of porous karst leading to a labyrinth of limestone caves.
—Alex Crevar, National Geographic, 4 May 2019
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The caves are more popular with local trekkers and cavers, though they're carved from limestone rock—the stuff that makes Thailand's famed karsts—and face erosion, per a Forbes article on the science of the system.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 July 2018
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Sixteen lakes stretch over a portion of the park, and they've been made breathtakingly beautiful by what is known as karst processes.
—Caroline Alkire, House Beautiful, 13 Feb. 2017
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The destruction of karsts at the hands of cement companies, developers and tourists is a problem throughout the region.
—Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
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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.
—Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
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Kentucky and bluegrass go together like Sea and Biscuit, and the byway has plenty of both: The karst and phosphate-rich soil is the special sauce in raising prizewinning thoroughbreds.
—Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
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The normally moist soil of Florida has a stabilizing effect on karst.
—Chris Bodenner, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2011
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For long stretches, hikers plod across karst limestone slabs jutting out at tenuous angles.
—Alex Crevar, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
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Knauth began exploring desert karsts in the 1980s as a young geology professor building his lab at Arizona State.
—Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
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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.
—Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
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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.
—Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
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What archaeologists haven’t known for sure, because of the small-scale nature of most excavations so far, is how all those people clustered among the rolling karst and seasonal wetlands of northern Guatemala.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
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The quake occurred at about 9:20 p.m. near Jiuzhaigou, or Jiuzhai Valley, a national park known for spectacular waterfalls and karst formations, the Chinese agency said.
—Bloomberg.com, 8 Aug. 2017
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The quake occurred around 9:20 p.m. near Jiuzhaigou, or Jiuzhai Valley, a national park known for spectacular waterfalls and karst formations, the Chinese agency said.
—Time, 9 Aug. 2017
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Chinese investors, inspired by the picturesque location — its dramatic karst topography and lush growth have been the source of countless Chinese landscape paintings — approached the architect with the idea of a resort hotel.
—Reed Kroloff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
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Above the surface, Raja Ampat's dramatic karst topography -- think southern Thailand without a thousand hotels -- is ripe for jungle walks and rock climbing.
—Joe Yogerst, CNN, 11 May 2017
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The telescope is located in Puerto Rico's karst region, which serves as an important water source and contains the island's richest biodiversity.
—DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
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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.
—The Economist, 19 May 2018
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Krabi’s beautiful coastline, lapped by impossibly green water studded with limestone karsts, serves as the backdrop for this peaceful property.
—Alisha Prakash, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
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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.
—Tibor Krausz, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2018
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Drilling also affects the delicate hydrological system of the karst, the limestone formations where prehistoric paintings are usually found.
—1843, 20 Feb. 2020
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