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"KARST" is a common misspelling or typo for: cart. |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | A geologic formation of irregular limestone deposits with sinks, underground streams, and caverns. (references) |
Geological | A distinctive landscape (topography) that can develop where the underlying bedrock, often limestone or marble, is partially dissoved by surface or ground water. (references) |
Mining | A type of topography that is formed on limestone, gypsum, and other rocks by dissolution, and that is characterized by sinkholes, caves, and underground drainage. Etymol. German, from the Yugoslavian territory Krs; type locality, a limestone plateau in the Dinaric Alps of northwestern Yugoslavia and northeastern Italy. First published on a topographic map, Ducatus Carnioliae, in 1774. Adj. karstic. Syn:karst topography. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Karst (Slovenian Kras) is a famous limestone region in western Slovenia. Its name has lent itself to signify any similar landscape, as described below.
In physical geography, karst is a geological topography in which the landscape is marked by underground drainage patterns and there may be no surface drainage at all. This is usually the result of the effect of mildly acidic rainfall caused by carbonic acid on limestone and dolomite (calcarenites).
This geological process results in distinctive features including sinkholes or dolines (closed basins), vertical shafts, disappearing streams, and springs, and after sufficient time complex underground drainage systems (karst aquifers) and extensive caves.
The carbonic acid which causes these features is formed as rain passes through the atmosphere picking up CO2, which dissolves in the water. Once the rain reaches the ground, it passess through the soil, gathering up more CO2 to form a carbonic acid solution: H2O + CO2 → H2CO3.
This mildly acidic water naturally begins to dissolve any cracks in the rock. Over time these enlarge and the bedrock begins to dissolve. Openings in the rock increase in size, and an underground drainage system begins to develop, allowing more water to pass through, accelerating the formation of karst features.
'Pseudokarst' occurs where the primary erosive agent in not rainwater, but there is underground drainage. This can occur in basalt where drainage is through lava caves, or amongst granite tors (for example Labertouche Cave in Victoria, Australia).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Karst."
Crosswords: KARST |
| Specialty definitions using "KARST": disappearing stream ♦ haystack hill ♦ karst lake, karst pond, karst tower ♦ lost river ♦ mogote ♦ pepino ♦ sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, SINKS, solution lake ♦ terra rossa. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "KARST" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (pick-axe), Turkish (karst). |
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 | Limestone islets in karst topography of Palau. Credit: Small World. |  | A sinkhole in the Karst topography of northeast Iowa funnels runoff waters directly into an underground aquifer. The conservation buffer surrounding the sinkhole improves water quality by filtering the water from croplands. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
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Economic History | Slovenia | The term "karst"--a limestone region of underground rivers, gorges, and caves-- originated in Slovenia's Karst plateau between Ljubljana and the Italian border. (references) |
Slovenia | Terrain: Mountains rising to more than 2,500 meters (8,200 ft.) in the north, wide plateaus over 1,000 meters (3,280 ft.) high in the southeast, Karst limestone region of caves in the south-southwest, hills in the east, and approximately 50 kilometers (39 mi.) of coastline on the Adriatic Sea. (references) | |
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| "KARST" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "KARST" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KARST" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Karst | Last name | 1,000 | 15,167 |
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Expressions using "KARST": karst lake ♦ karst pond ♦ karst tower ♦ karst valley. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "KARST": karst-like. | |
Ending with "KARST": pseudo-karst. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
karst | 44 |
karst topography | 16 |
moravian karst | 11 |
cave karst | 5 |
barbara bougainvillea karst | 4 |
karst sports | 4 |
karst landforms | 3 |
air karst nike | 2 |
fluvial in karst system terrain | 2 |
air karst nike z | 2 |
area indiana karst | 2 |
binkley indiana karst | 2 |
channel fluvial in karst terrain | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "KARST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | karstsø (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), karstdal (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), karst bakke (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino), indsynkningsdal (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | karstgang (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), getuigeberg (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino), dolinemeer (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karstivajoamalaakso (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), karstivajoamajärvi (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), karstitorni (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino), karstilaakso (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lac de doline (karst lake, karst pond), couloir karstique (karst valley), butte-témoin (karst tower), butte témoin (karst tower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Karstschneise (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), Talsenke (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), Sammelgrubensee (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), Heuhaufenhügel (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino), Erdhügel (mound of earth), Einsturzsee (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), Dolinensee (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρστική κοιλάδα (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), λόφος μάρτυρας (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino), λίμνη καρστικού φρέατος (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), λίμνη δολίνης (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karszt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | laghetto di sprofondamento (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), laghetto di dolina (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), collina a pagliaio (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino), avvallamento carsico (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | カルスト地形 (boy, caldera, cardamom, cartel, Cartier, clinical records, cultivator, culture, culture center, culture shock, quartet, Quartier Latin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カルストちけい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arstkay vale cársico (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), uvala (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), lago cársico (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake). (various references) krš (detritus, rubbish, rubble). (various references) testigo de montículo (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino), lapiaz kárstico (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), lapiaz cárstico (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), lago de dolina (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), garganta kárstica (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), garganta cárstica (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), estanque de dolina (karst lake, karst pond, sink lake, sinkhole lake, sinkhole pond, solution lake), cañón kárstico (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink), cañón cárstico (karst valley, nested sinkholes, solution valley, uvala, valley sink). (various references) karsttorn (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino). (various references) karst. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "KARST": karstic, karsts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "KARST" (pronounced kÄ"rst) |
| 3 | -r s t | divorced, endorsed, enforced, forced, Horst, pierced, reinforced, unenforced, unhorsed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: karts, stark. | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: arks, arts, kart, kats, rats, sark, skat, star, tars, task, tsar. | |
-2 letters: ark, ars, art, ask, kas, kat, ras, rat, sat, ska, tar, tas, tsk. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, at, ka, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: karats, karsts, korats, krafts, kraits, krauts, kurtas, skater, strake, streak, takers, taroks, tracks, traiks, tranks, troaks. | |
+2 letters: britska, darkest, kantars, karates, karstic, kashrut, kraters, markets, muskrat, ostmark, rackets, rankest, restack, retacks, retakes, skaters, stacker, stalker, starker, starkly, straked, strakes, streaks, streaky, tackers, talkers, tankers, troikas. | |
+3 letters: amtracks, artworks, asterisk, backrest, barkiest, basketry, brackets, brakiest, britskas, britzkas, britzska, crankest, frakturs, frankest, futharks, hatracks, hektares, kartings, kashruth, kashruts, keratins, keratose, kitharas, larkiest, meerkats, mistaker, muskrats, ostmarks, outbarks, outranks, overtask, partakes, postmark, ratfinks, restacks, retakers, retracks, saltwork, sarkiest, seatwork, sitzmark, stackers, stalkers, stalkier, starkers, starkest, starlike, stinkard, stockcar, streaked, streaker, tacklers, tamarisk, tanbarks, tankards, taskwork, thankers, titlarks, trackers, tripacks, zikurats. | |
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