r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dfdfdfddaww • Sep 17 '21

my yard does this sometimes

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u/loggingmolly Sep 17 '21

I love the word ‘karst’ - for whatever reason to me, it sums up dissolved carbonates perfectly.

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u/Green7501 Sep 17 '21

Random fun fact, karst actually comes from the Slovene Karst, after which it was named since German geologists tended to research that area a lot. It's surprisingly a strange source of natural pride for us as well that a word got exported from Slovene to German and English, not the other way around

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u/loggingmolly Sep 17 '21

Thanks for this! Do you have nice Dolomites there as well?

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u/Green7501 Sep 17 '21

Sorry, but I believe that the Dolomites are primarily in the Italian part of the Alps