Limestone Caves
4c. Karst catchments

Karst is the term used for the distinctive landforms of catchments on limestone and other soluble rocks. Karst landforms include:

• underground drainage where water has dissolved the rock forming caves
• gorges and sink holes which capture surface streams leaving dry valleys.

The topographic map below displays some of these features with a gorge in the area of the Natural Bridge (a cave where all of the Yarrangobilly River runs through a hillside) and sink holes capturing creeks.

Scale: each grid is one kilometre
contour interval 10 m

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