Abîme, the Glossary
In geography, an abîme is a vertical shaft in karst terrain that may be very deep and usually opens into a network of subterranean passages.[1]
Table of Contents
12 relations: Blue hole, Cave of Swallows, Cenote, French language, Geography, Hellhole (cave), Karst, Pit cave, Pozzo del Merro, Sinkhole, Solutional cave, Vrtiglavica.
- Dinaric karst formations
- Karst formations
Blue hole
A blue hole is a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island composed of a carbonate bedrock (limestone or coral reef).
Cave of Swallows
The Cave of Swallows, also called the Cave of the Swallows (Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open-air pit cave in the municipality of Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
See Abîme and Cave of Swallows
Cenote
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater.
See Abîme and Cenote
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
Geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
Hellhole (cave)
Hellhole is a large and deep pit cave in Germany Valley of eastern West Virginia.
Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. Abîme and Karst are Dinaric karst formations.
See Abîme and Karst
Pit cave
A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric Alpine karst)—is a type of cave which contains one or more significant vertical shafts rather than being predominantly a conventional horizontal cave passage. Abîme and pit cave are Dinaric karst formations and karst formations.
Pozzo del Merro
Pozzo del Merro is a flooded sinkhole in the countryside northeast of Rome, Italy.
Sinkhole
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. Abîme and sinkhole are Dinaric karst formations.
Solutional cave
A solutional cave, solution cave, or karst cave is a cave usually formed in the soluble rock limestone.
Vrtiglavica
Vrtiglavica, also Vrtoglavica (both from Slovene vrtoglavica 'vertigo'), is a karst shaft on the Kanin Plateau, part of the Kanin Mountains, Western Julian Alps, on the Slovene side of the border between Slovenia and Italy.
See also
Dinaric karst formations
- Abîme
- Estavelle
- Foiba
- Glaciokarst
- Karst
- Karst Plateau
- Karst window
- List of karst areas
- List of karst plateaus in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- List of karst polje in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- List of sinkholes
- Losing stream
- Pit cave
- Polje
- Ponor
- Sinkhole
- Speleothem
- Subterranean river
- Subterranean waterfall
- Suffosion
- Uvala (landform)
Karst formations
- Abîme
- Boquerón State Forest
- Crimean Mountain karst
- Foiba
- High Karst Unit
- König-Otto-Tropfsteinhöhle
- Kamenitza (geomorphology)
- Karst lake
- Karst springs
- List of karst areas
- Losing stream
- Lough Funshinagh
- Maczuga Herkulesa
- NR-1 Sinkhole
- Northern Karst Belt
- Pit cave
- Polje
- Ponor
- Sinkholes
- Speleothem
- Subterranean waterfall
- Suffosion
- Tower karst
- Turlough (lake)
- Underground lake
- Uvala (landform)