karst spring

noun

karst spring

noun
1

A spring that is part of a karst hydrological system.

  • Fontaine de Vaucluse, France, is the deepest known karst spring, -315 m. Lower parts were explored by a robot submersible. It is probably the ascending limb of a single loop in a syncline.1988, Noel P. James, Philip W. Choquette, editors, Paleokarst, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 36:

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