| 单词 | cockpit karst |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockpit karst cockpit karst n. Geomorphology a form of karst landscape exemplified by the cockpits (sense 5) of Jamaica, typically consisting of rocky hollows and sinkholes lying between steep-sided conical limestone hills. ΚΠ 1954 Erdkunde 8 122/1 This is the ‘cockpit’-karst (karst en écumoire) of Jamaica, Porto-rico, Java and New Guinea. 1980 Geography 65 109 Their basins, called cockpits in Jamaica, are surrounded by steep-sided hills (cones) which are dissected by gullies channelling run-off into adjacent cockpits. An assemblage of such depressions and adjacent hills is known as cockpit karst. 2000 A. J. Whitten et al. Ecol. Sumatra (new ed.) viii. 271 Cockpit karst such as at Lho'Nga, North Aceh, and in the hills near Payakumbuh, has a regular series of conical or hemispherical hills and hollows with moderately steep sides (30–40°). < as lemmas |
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