Abstract Academician Ivan Gams is Slovenia's best known researcher of karst and the most
prolific author of works on karst. During his first job at the Institute of Geography of the …

Abstract Although contributions by Jovan Cvijić are the most significant karstological work in
the history of science in Serbia, the researchers of Serbian karst before the time of Cvijić are …

In the last decades of the 19th and first decades of the 20th century, the general approach in
karst investigations was primarily scientific and theoretical. However, due to karst terrains …

Kras and karst in Slovenia Page 7 KRAS AND KARST IN SLOVENIA Peter Habič* Abstract This
paper describes significant karst areas together with the best known karst features in Slovenia …

Karst is a type of landscape with special surface, underground and hydrological features
and phenomena. Its main characteristic is dissolution of the carbonate rocks by water …

The age of a karst can be defined as the time when the karst rocks were uplifted out of the
sea. The other view of the age of karst is to define the age of certain karst features or …

This book presents the latest advances in karstology by researchers at the ZRC SAZU Karst
Research Institute, Slovenia–home of Classical Karst. It features interdisciplinary …

The term kras (karst) has three implications in the Slovenian language: it appears as a
topographical name for the Kras (Karst) region or the Kras (Karst) Plateau, as an appellative …

Word kras (karst) entered to international scientific terminology from Slovenia; and also
some other words like dolina, polje ect. Kras is a low carbonate plateau between Diva~ a …

About 44% of Slovenia's surface consists of carbonate rocks. Karst geomorphology and over
13,000 known caves represent a significant proportion of its landscape. Various sediments …