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单词 karrenfeld
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karrenfeldn.

/ˈkarənfɛlt//ˈkarənfɛld/
Forms: Also Karrenfeld.
Etymology: German, < karren (see karren n.) + feld field.
Geomorphology.
An area or landscape, usually of limestone bare of soil, which has been eroded by solution of the rock giving an extremely dissected surface with conspicuous furrows and fissures, often separated by knifelike ridges.
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1885 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 2) iii. ii. 322 Limestones frequently assume a remarkable channelled rugose surface, with projecting knobs, ridges and pinnacles especially developed in high bare tracts of ground. (Karrenfelder.)
1922 Geol. Mag. 59 394 In Switzerland, notably in the canton Glarus, these bare surfaces known as Karrenfelder have been the subject of detailed studies by Heim.
1923 Nature 9 June 787/1 These have originated in guano, which gathered in the hollows of a ‘karrenfeld’, worn out of upraised coral-limestone.
1948 C. A. Cotton Landscape (ed. 2) xxiii. 445 It has been suggested that all karrenfelds are such surfaces stripped of soil in recent times.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 100 In some cases a karrenfeld, consisting of small pinnacles separated by crevices, may form.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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