List of karst landscapes

Karst landscapes exist around the world. The term karst (cf. Slovenian kras, Croatian krš, Serbian крш, Italian carso, Latin carsus "stony and barren soil"; Indo-European most likely * kar- "stone, rock") was used in the 19th century by geographers who wrote in German Landscape Kras between Trieste in Italy and the Krainer Schneeberg in Slovenia generalized as a type locality to describe geomorphologically similar landscapes.

Europe

Germany

• Franconian Alb
• Gypsum karst area around Bad Segeberg , u. a. Segeberger Kalkberg and Cave
• Churchyard
• Harz near Bad Grund and Rübeland mainly limestone and on the southern edge of the Harz there is a karst belt of anhydrite and gypsum karst from the Zechstein sediments ( Rüdigsdorfer Switzerland )
• Hönnetal
• southern edge of the Kyffhauser
• Paderborn plateau
• Swabian Alb (Merokarst)
• Stone Sea
• Border of the Thuringian Forest
• Stubnitzer Horst on Rügen (wet and dry dolines over leached lime, chalk )
• Rüdersdorf near Berlin (isolated shell limestone deposits)

Estonia

• Lahemaa National Park

France

• Jura (Merokarst)
• Vercors
• Chartreuse
• Causses
• Pyrenees
• Cevennes , partly
• Mont Ventoux Vaucluse department

Greece

• Ionian Islands ( Zakynthos , Kefalonia )
• North Euboea
• Northeastern Peloponnese (including Stymfalia (ecosystem) , Feneos, Tripoli Plateau, Lazy Plain -Nestani-Polje-)

Great Britain

• Mendip Hills
• Pennines
• Yorkshire Dales
• Ingelborough - Malham , North Yorkshire
• South Wales

Ireland

• The Burren (see also: Turlough )

Italy

• Italian Limestone Alps
• South Tyrolean Dolomites
• Sardinia
• Trieste Karst
• Lessin Alps
• Apennines

Croatia

• Dalmatia
• Lika (mostly green karst with sinkholes "crater landscape")
• Gorski Kotar (Green Karst)
• Kvarner Bay (mainly green karst)
• Croatian islands

Montenegro

• Bay of Kotor (drowned karst river valley)
• Orjen (Mediterranean hypercarst or holocarst)

Austria

• Dachstein Mountains
• Drusenfluh - Sulzfluh (Rätikon)
• Dürrenstein
• Glockner Group - Kitzsteinhorn
• Goellstock
• Churchyard
• Graz Paleozoic
• Hagen Mountains
• Hochkönig
• Hochschwab
• Hochobir
• Hell Mountains
• Gailtal Alps
• Grazer Bergland
• Karawanken
• Carnic Alps
• Loferer Steinberge
• Leoganger Steinberge
• Lechquellen Mountains
• Osterhorn Group
• Radstadt Tauern
• Rax
• Schneeberg
• Stone Sea
• Tennengebirge
• Dead Mountains
• Tux Alps
• Warscheneck

Portugal

• Maciço Calcário do Algarve Central
• Maciço Calcário Estremenho

Switzerland

• Brislach - Allmet
• Churfirsten - Säntis
• Falknis - Drusenfluh - Sulzfluh (Rätikon Mountains)
• Hohgant - Schrattenfluh with the Siebenhengste-Hohgant cave
• Lapis de Tsanfleuron (Glacier Foreland of the Tsanfleuron Glacier )
• Sägistal - Battenalp - Gießbachtal - Axalp
• Silberen - Bödmerenwald with the Hölloch , the longest cave in Europe and the fifth longest cave on earth (as of 2010: 197.9 km)
• Swiss Jura (Merokarst)
• Stockhorn chain- Sanetsch area
• Tour d'Aï

Sweden

• Alvar : island of Öland , to a lesser extent also island of Gotland

Slovakia

• Slovak Karst - of which the following karst caves have been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO : Gombasecká jaskyňa (Gombesek cave), Jasovská jaskyňa (Jossau cave), Jaskyňa Domica ( Domica cave) and Ochtinská aragonitová jaskyňa (Ochtinaer Aragonithöhle)
• Aggtelek Karst (part of the Hungarian area)

Slovenia

• Lower Carniola (Kranjska)

Spain

• El Torcal
• Picos de Europa
• Pyrenees
• Mallorca
• Sierra Nevada
• Sierra de Atapuerca
• Cantabrian Mountains

Czech Republic

• Moravian Karst

Ukraine

• Podolia (gypsum karst)
• Bukovina (gypsum karst)
• Crimea

Hungary

• Aggtelek Karst

Collapse crater karst landscape in the Lika

Asia

• Papua New Guinea

China

• Guilin (Li River) (Tower Karst, Fengkong and Fengling)
• Shilin Stone Forest

Georgia

• Caucasus

Indonesia

• Sarawak
• Borneo
• Celebes
• Java
• Sumatra

Iran

• Zagros Mountains

Japan

• Akiyoshi Plateau ( Honshū )

Russia (Asian part)

• Ural Mountains
• Baikal region
• Caucasus

Tajikistan

• Alai Mountains

Turkmenistan

• Great Balkans

Turkey

• Taurus Mountains

Vietnam

• Halong Bay (cone karst flooded by the sea)
• Ninh Binh (cone karst)

Africa

Morocco

• Atlas Mountains

America

• Bahamas
• Jamaica (cockpit karst)
• Cuba
• Puerto Rico
• Guatemala
• Venezuela
• Peru

Mexico

• Yucatan
• Chiapas

United States

• Pecos Valley - Guadalupe Mountain (New Mexico) with Carlsbad Caverns and Lechuguilla Cave
• Kaibab Plateau ( Grand Canyon )
• Ozark Mountains
• Indiana
• Kentucky
• Atlantic coastal plain
• Florida
• Black Hills (Dakota)
• Appalachian Mountains
• Colorado Plateau
• North Texas
• Northwest Texas

Canada

• Niagara layer level
• Alvar : the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario

Australia and Oceania

Australia

• Mole Creek Karst National Park
• Nullarbor Plain
• Purnululu National Park

New Zealand

• Paparoa National Park