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This week's theme Words from geology This week's words yardang pingo scree inselberg karst Karst landscape near Minerve, Hérault, France (photo: Hugo Soria) Next week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's comments AWADmail 368 Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg karst PRONUNCIATION: (karst) MEANING: noun: An area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinks, etc. ETYMOLOGY: From German, after the Karst, a limestone plateau in Slovenia, near the Italian city of Trieste. USAGE: "Traveling east into the wooded hills and finally to the elevated, rolling plain above the bluffs, the tour group enters the realm of karst, the ultimate geologic destination of this tour and primary scientific focus of the day's adventure." Joseph G. Maty; Magical Geological Tour is a Trip; St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri); May 12, 1997. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less. -Jean de la Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)

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