cockpit karst
Enclosed depression landscape
Cockpit karst is a type of limestone landscape characterized by large, bowl-shaped depressions surrounded by conical hills.
The depressions resemble cockpits—enclosed arenas—and form through dissolution of rock over millennia.
This terrain dominates parts of Jamaica and Puerto Rico: We flew over the cockpit karst of the island's interior.
- cockpitPilot's control compartment
- karstEroded soluble rock terrain
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- sinkholeUnderground collapse crater
- caveUnderground hollow in rock
cavern · terrain · geology · dissolution · underground · topography · formation · erosion · bedrock · landscape · tower · depression · drainage · subterranean · pinnacle · cenote · aquifer · solution
- karstsinkhole, sinkholes, cave, caves, cavern
- karst landformssinkhole, cave, grotto, stalactite, stalagmite
karst landform morphology
cockpit karsttower karst
Steep-sided residual limestone hills
limestone pillars · hum · hums