Grotto vs Karst - What's the difference?
grotto | karst |
A small cave.
An artificial cavern-like retreat.
A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
(geology) A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
* 1978 , M. M. Sweeting, “The Karst of Kweilin, Southern China,” The Geographical Journal , vol. 144, no. 2, p. 200:
* 2009 , Katherine Harmon, “Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008,” ScientificAmerican.com , May 29, 2009:
As a noun grotto
is a small cave.As a proper noun karst is
a mountainous region in northeastern italy and southwestern slovenia.grotto
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Noun
(wikipedia grotto) (en-noun)Derived terms
* grotkarst
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(Karst topography)Noun
(en noun)- In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.
- The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.