tower karst
Steep tropical landforms
Tower karst is a dramatic landscape where steep-sided limestone pillars rise abruptly from flat plains, formed by millions of years of dissolution and erosion.
The towers stand isolated like columns or clustered like stone forests, their near-vertical walls created as surrounding rock dissolved away.
Southern China's Guilin region offers the classic example, its towers rising from rice paddies and rivers.
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- pinnaclesHighest or culminating points
- cavesNatural underground chambers
- sinkholesGround collapse cavities
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
limestone pillars · jungle · China · spires · erosion · dissolution · valleys · cliffs · vertical · dramatic · mist · rice paddies · misty peaks · bamboo raft · river cruise · landscape · cockpit · stalactites
- karstsinkhole, sinkholes, cave, caves, cavern
- karst landformssinkhole, cave, grotto, stalactite, stalagmite
- cliff featuresprecipice, cliff face, crag, rock ledge, ledge
topographic profile
tower karstpeneplain
Erosion-flattened land surface
rolling hills · lowland · depression · level ground · basin