#karst

[mcromwell]

Trying a new paper in the travel sketchbook-- except it isn't technically paper...

(NOT A PAID PARTNERSHIP! Just a product test for educational purposes.)

[jacobvanloon]

Karst

Watercolor and gouache on paper, 8x10”

2024

[tinygryphon-58570]

Last day of Rockbreaker's! Make sure you do the things!

[chilikroete]

Predjama Castle

[zymotica]

sister

[giaffa]

friulian legend of the karst // limestones around Trieste // Torrioni di Monrupino // Rosandra Valley Reserve

[ahedderick]

The Gap

September 30

October 7

The dry creekbed is, to me, very sad. About a hundred yards/meters behind me, here, an old bridge was removed and upgraded about 15 years ago. We are on "karst" (limestone) topography, here, which means sinkholes, large and small, are quite common. While the road crew was excavating to put the footers in for the new bridge, they created a space in the creekbed where water can filter underground instead of continuing in its natural bed. Ever since then this section of creek is dry most of the time, although water comes back to the surface just around that curve in the road. When there is heavy rain, there is enough flow to re-water this part of the stream - but it always dries back up as water levels drop upstream. The gap remains, however, one of the loveliest spots on the farm.

[gureko11]

If you've played Golden Sun and you never had a crush on Karst then you're lying

[grosskelly]

i regret to inform everyone that these expensive art supplies are really good quality. 🌽😔

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was flying around a karst when some tourists tried to get my attention to take pictures with me. I mostly hovered in the background and made faces.

[protoindoeuropean]

The absolute shade of 'I'd describe those as hills' heheheh Slovenian mountains do go pretty hard tbf. Also the karst region of Slovenia is so cool and I never knew that region is where the name comes from!! I assumed the region was named after the rock not the other way around

💁‍♂️ tbf we have a three-way basic distinction anyway (gora 'mountain', hrib 'hill', grič 'hillock', though much like with hill and hillock you can make further diminutives from each of those too), which is something that happens when your hills and mountains are about twice as high as they are in Britain, for example :p

But yeah Karst (Kras in Sln., Carso in Ita.) is a limestone plateau in Slovenia and Italy where these phenomena were first studied and presented to the wider public in the 17th century – both to academic circles with Valvasor's publications, as well as more generally: the records of the first tourists in the Vilenica cave go back to 1633 (making it the oldest show cave in Europe). Because of that the region is also called Classical Karst, to disambiguate

In contrast to the South China mountains, a surface feature of karst topography (that's not to say there isn't anyththing else going on there, above- and underground), Karst is more well known for the subterranean features, caves and caverns full of stalactites and stalagmites, underground rivers and lakes – famously, the river Reka (which means 'river' in Sln.) goes underground in the Škocjan caves and surfaces as the springs of Timavo on the Adriatic coast; there are many other examples like that, also outside of the Classical Karst, like the seven names of Ljubljanica which we learn in school – seven different streams that were identified as one single river, going underground and resurfacing (at least) six times

the already mentioned Škocjan caves are also my favourite natural wonder 😌 (an underground canyon is kinda hard to beat tbh)

[goldensunartinitiative]

Bask in the glow of the Dusk

Courtesy of @vaicupcakes, one of our zines will feature a series of 5 new Duskshipping images. Felix and Karst, a pair of doomed lovers; one doomed to die, and the other to live. Momories of nights like this linger...

And as a bonus here on Tumblr, have an extra preview!

If you are active on Blueskky, find us there for yet ANOTHER bonus preview!

[ancientorigins]

A recently found giant sinkhole in China may be home to a Jurassic Park of unknown flora and fauna, and botanists are especially excited about the primeval forest species they may find.

[tinygryphon-58570]

It's rock the dragon time! o0o/

[wellwornwornwell]

[vertigo1871]

Emilie Mediz-Pelikan (1861-1908), lithographies (Bohemia and Karst, 1898 c.)