Christmas Island Karst

Surface Karst

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Selected photographs and diagrams

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Coastal cliff, the Shore Terrace, and the higher cliffs and terraces - which are old coastal cliffs stranded by the ongoing uplift of the island.
Marine notches cut into the coastal cliffs, and an offshore stack in Flying Fish Cove.
Marine notch (at low tide) with phosphate ship in background. Flying Fish Cove.
Details of phytokarst in the coastal cliffs.
One of a group of springs in the Ross Hill Gardens area that have been tapped for water supply.
Ross Hills Gardens area, showing pipeline connecting springs, and also the bare understory beneath the rainforest. This is thought to be due to the browsing of the numerous red crabs.
The pump-house at Ross Hill Gardens. Biologists sampling for stygofauna
Entrance to Grimes Cave (no relation) in the coastal cliff.
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