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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’.

1903 Geogr. Jrnl. 21 328 The surface formation met with most commonly in limestone districts, which is usually known by the German term Karren, or the French Lapiaz.

1921 Geogr. Rev. 11 594 The identification of ‘karren’ and ‘lapiez’ is taken from Eugène Renevier's ‘Monographie des Hautes Alpes Vaudoises’ (Matériaux pour la carte géol. Suisse), p. 499.

1921 Geogr. Rev. 11 598 The name adopted by Professor Cvijič is ‘lapiez’, which is the term used in the French Jura.

1924 J. Cvijič in 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 of Switzerland, where in the cantons of German speech they are called Karren or Schratten and in districts of French speech lapiéz or lapiaz or lapiés.

1924 J. Cvijič in Geogr. Rev. XIV. 40 Lapiés are formed principally by chemical erosion of limestone surfaces by meteoric water.

1924 J. Cvijič in Geogr. Rev. XIV. 44 Typical lapiés occur chiefly on moderately steep slopes.

1924 J. Cvijič in Geogr. Rev. XIV. 44 Scattered limestone monoliths are rapidly formed out of the lapiés ridges.

1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xiii. 319 Where relief is considerable, limestone surfaces are bare of terra rossa and there is exposed an etched, pitted, grooved, fluted and otherwise rugged surface to which the name lapiés is most commonly applied. Cvijić (1924) has described..the amazing diversity of surface and form which lapiés exhibits in the Dalmatian karst region. He maintained that lapiés is found chiefly on outcrops of naked rock.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 645/1 Well developed lapiés with pinnacles standing up to 5 meters high are common in emerged limestone reefs, particularly in the South Pacific.

1972 Bauer & Zötl in Herak & Stringfield Karst vii. 236 At these altitudes [in Austria] lapies are dominant karst phenomena, covering wide areas.

1972 Bauer & Zötl in Herak & Stringfield Karst vii. 237 Where the surface of limestones is exposed by recent soil erosion, irregularly shaped, more or less rounded rills and lapies of different depth are found.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 644/2 (caption) Lapiés formed in limestone covered by residual clay... When the lapié ridges are destroyed, a dolina will be formed, filled with clay.