单词 | dolina |
释义 | dolinadolinen. Geology. A depression or basin in a karstic limestone region, esp. one that is relatively extensive and funnel-shaped. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > other slack?a1400 swamp1691 cauldrona1763 hog wallow1829 tomo1859 kettle1866 pocket1869 dolina1882 kettle hole1883 frost hollow1895 impact crater1895 uvala1902 frost pocket1907 sotch1910 pingo1938 lagg1939 tafoni1942 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iii. ii. ii. 355 The ground may there be found drilled with vertical cavities (swallow-holes, sinks, dolinas), by the solution of the rock along lines of joint that serve as channels for descending rain-water. 1922 Geol. Mag. 59 406 The funnel-shaped hollows which are so frequently met with on the surface of the karst are termed ponors. Many of these are largely filled with red earth, formed by the decomposition of the limestone, and are then known as dolinas. 1937 Discovery July 214/1 Huts clustered round a very wide dolina in the shelter of the highest elevation. 1942 O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xxii. 572 The doline, of which the swallow hole and sink hole are variants, is the initial and fundamental unit of karst topography. The type doline has the form of a funnel top and occurs in the Adriatic karst. 1962 Nature 16 June 1037/2 Vertically walled, knife-edged arêtes and pinnacles of bare limestone standing like battlements around dolines covered by montane forest of mossy aspect. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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