Significant Karst Features
The connection belongs to Ecology connections.
Connected Sites
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst: Surface landscape is a temperate doline karst (AB ev)
- Antequera Dolmens Site: El Torcal de Antequera (one of the most important karst landscapes in Europe)
- Belize Barrier Reef: Cenotes
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks: Outstanding example of glaciokarst terrain (AB ev)
- Canaima National Park: The most outstanding example in the world of cave development in quartzite (Precambrian age) (AB ev)
- Carlsbad Caverns: Outstanding karst extends into neighbouring Guadalupe National Park (AB ev)
- Chichen-Itza: Cenotes
- Desembarco del Granma National Park: Spectacular staircase of uplifted Coral terraces around Cabo Cruz that support ongoing development of karst landforms (AB ev)
- Greater Blue Mountains: Jenolan Caves Karst Conservation Reserve
- Gunung Mulu: Surface features include giant collapse dolines and spectacular razor-sharp pinnacle karst (AB ev)
- Ha Long Bay: The world's most extensive and bestknown example of tropical tower karst invaded by the sea. (AB ev)
- Hallstatt-Dachstein: Dachstein massif of 574 km2 is an excellent example of glaciokarst (AB ev)
- Henderson Island: An outstanding example of early phase of karstification with intact natural processes, (AB ev)
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale: Possibly the world's earliest karst tourist site still in use. (AB ev)
- Huanglong: Represents depositional output landforms of deeply circulating karst groundwater system (AB ev)
- Jeju: Outstanding example of volcanokarst, a special style of pseudokarst(AB ev)
- Jiuzhaigou Valley: Represents depositional output landforms of shallow karst groundwater system with significant epikarst water contribution. (AB ev)
- Lena Pillars: Frozen karst and thermokarst in permafrost 100 - 500 m thick (AB ev)
- Lenggong Valley: Bukit Kepala Gajah: This large karst outcrop occupies an area of six square kilometres at its foot, with a summit 258 metres above sea level. It contains more than 20 caves (AB ev)
- Lorentz National Park: World's best example of tropical alpine glaciated karst (AB ev)
- Mammoth Cave: The karst is developed in Lower Carboniferous(Mississippian) limestone and cave evolution commenced following uplift and exposure 3 to 4 million years ago. (AB ev)
- Nahanni National Park: World's foremost example of karst development in cold climate conditions. (AB ev)
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang: Long history of karst landscape evolution (AB ev)
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River: Spectacular tropical karst landscape (AB ev)
- Purnululu National Park: Outstanding example of quartz sandstone fluviokarst with beehive-shaped hills (AB ev)
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu: Outstanding example of alpine glaciated karst to 3352 m (AB ev)
- Skocjan Caves: It is representative of the input of an allogenic river into a karst system (AB ev)
- South China Karst: These three areas provide typesites for their principal karst features (AB ev)
- Tasmanian Wilderness: Many small areas of karst in limestone and dolomite, some in alpine zone (AB ev)
- Trang An: includes karst towers rising to 187 metres to the north west, to 198 metres at Trang An and up to 162 metres to the south & totally autogenic (rainfed) karst (AB ev)
- Tsingy de Bemaraha: Extensive areas of very sharp limestone pinnacle karst (AB ev)
- Virgin Komi Forests: The dissolution of limestone along the foothills has resulted in the formation of a karst landscape with subterranean caves, craters and river beds which are seasonally flooded. (EOEarth)
- Western Caucasus: Includes glaciokarst features, many deep gorges and deep caves. (AB ev)
- Wulingyuan: Particularly outstanding for its spectacular sandstone fluviokarst relief (AB ev)
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to Significant Karst Features?
A connection should:
- Not be "self evident"
- Link at least 3 different sites
- Not duplicate or merely subdivide the "Category" assignment already identified on this site.
- Add some knowledge or insight (whether significant or trivial!) about WHS for the users of this site
- Be explained, with reference to a source