sotchn.
/səʊtʃ/ Physical Geography.
A doline, esp. one in the Causses region of France.
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
1910 H. R. Mill Dict. Geogr. Terms in L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms (1961) 426/2 Sotch, dolines (q.v.) (Causses, France). The term ‘cloup’ is used in Aquitaine.
1922 Geol. Mag. 59 394 The only fertile and habitable regions on these barren plateaus are the ‘sotches’ or hollows, where the red earth formed by the denudation of the limestone is preserved in large funnel-shaped hollows.
1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 89 63 A detailed study of the karst landscape, showing the important part played by the dolinas or ‘sotchs’ in the dissection of the surface.
1972 M. M. Sweeting Karst Landforms iv. 48/2 The sotchs are both circular and elongated, their diameters and depths variable and their topographic situations diverse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
<
n.1910- source data
- source document
- source language
- source material
- source program
- source rock
- source study
- source tree
- source-critical
- source-criticism
- source-hunter
- source-hunting
- sourcecritical
- sourcecriticism
- sourced
- sourcehunter
- sourcehunting
- sourceless
- sources
- sourcing
- sourcomplexioned
- sourcrout
- sourcroutish
- sourd
- sourdet