karrenn.

1894 Geogr. Jrnl. 3 322 The chief features of such limestone regions are those known as karren, dolinen, blind valleys, and poljen. The karren, or surfaces composed of blocks of limestone separated by narrow fissures, are dealt with very briefly.

1898 Geogr. Jrnl. 12 90 Karren are peculiar fissures in the rocky surface of some mountainous regions.

1902 Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. xiii. 437 In calcareous districts the surface is sometimes quite bare and intersected by furrows... Such districts are known on the Continent as ‘lapiées’ or ‘karren’.

1924 Geogr. Rev. XIV. 27 Lapiés are found at all altitudes from sea level to lofty mountain summits. They were first observed and described in the limestone Alps in Switzerland, where in the cantons of German speech they are called Karren or Schratten.

1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. vii. 155 The surface of the limestone..is often conspicuously furrowed and fretted (clints, grykes, lapiés, rascles, Schratten, Karren).

1971 J. N. Jennings Karst iv. 41 Very many Karren in central and western Europe must be regarded as stripped.