GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A landscape that is characterized by numerous caves, sinkholes, fissures, and underground streams. Karst topography usually forms in regions of plentiful rainfall where bedrock consists of carbonate-rich rock, such as limestone, gypsum, or dolomite, that is easily dissolved.

Detailed explanation-2: -A sinkhole is a depression or hole formed when the land surface sinks due to underground bedrock dissolution or cave collapse.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call, “karst terrain.” These are regions where the types of rock below the land surface can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through them. Soluble rocks include salt beds and domes, gypsum, limestone and other carbonate rock.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the rocks found in the karst regions are thinly bedded and permeable; the surface water drains underground and erodes the rocks with its horizontal and downward movement. The chemical process of solution and precipitation leads to the formation of the landforms either through erosion or deposition.

Detailed explanation-5: -Karst topography refers to natural landscape that is largely the result of chemical weathering by water, resulting in caves, sinkholes, cliffs, and steep-sided hills called towers. These features form when water picks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ground to form carbonic acid.