The discovery of a new type of taller and slenderer columnar Karst landscape has been disclosed by Hubei Geological Sciences Research Institute on Wednesday at Kanzi Mountain in Yunxi County, central ...

For thousands of years, karst landforms and particularly karst depressions like dolines, for example, have been important sites of human husbandry. There is evidence from as far back as the 2nd ...

Karst landforms, which are shaped by the dissolution of carbonate rocks, cover about 15% of the Earth's land surface and provide stable water resources to a quarter of the global population.

Photo taken on April 9, 2013 shows the scenery of stalactites inside the Reed Flute Cave in Guilin, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The World Heritage Committee on Monday inscribed an ...

A new study entitled Geologic Hazards in the Karst Regions of Virginia and West Virginia, Investigations and Analysis Concerning the Proposed Mountain Valley Gas Pipeline by Dr. Ernst H. Kastning, ...

Jinfo Mountain in Chongqing was added along with three other karst landforms to the UNESCO World Heritage list on Monday at the 35th World Heritage Convention in Doha, Qatar. The four — including ...

The huge karst area of South China is about 550,000 km2 in extent. The karst terrain displays a geomorphic transition as the terrain gradually descends about 2000 meters over 700 kilometers from the ...

Based on the standards C(II)(III)(IV)(VI) for selecting world cultural heritage, the South China Karst was listed in the World Heritage List. Gallery The South China Karst covers 50,000 square ...

South China Karst is one of the world’s most spectacular examples of humid tropical to subtropical karst landscapes. It is a serial site spread over the provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and ...