| 释义 |
karsting, vbl. n. Geomorphol.|ˈkɑːstɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
= karstification.
1921Geogr. Rev. XI. 597 In youth, the surface of the land is still principally drained by the rivers which flow on the former surface of the land before the limestone subject to karsting was laid bare. 1956D. L. Linton Sheffield ii. 27 Our knowledge of the ‘karsting’ of the limestone plateau of the southern Pennines is still elementary. |