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Around 20–25% of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region consists of karstified rocks. The geological, geographical and climatic conditions have given rise to a whole series of karst landscapes which have developed in different ways on limestone of different ages, located at different altitudes. One encounters splendid examples of alpine karst (Mt. Canin and Cansiglio–Cavallo Massif), mountain-hill karst (Mt. Ciaurlec, Julian Prealps) and marine-coastal karst. In the Classical Karst near Trieste, the worldwide symbol of karst phenomena, over 3000 caves are known while half a dozen are over 1000 m in length. There are about 80 solution and collapse dolines with a diameter greater than 100 m.
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Cucchi, F., Finocchiaro, F. (2017). Karst Landforms in Friuli Venezia Giulia: From Alpine to Coastal Karst. In: Soldati, M., Marchetti, M. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Italy. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26194-2_12
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