Asia, Southwest: A tall canyon cut along joints creates the feeling of an underground wadi prone to flash floods in Kahf Hoti in the Jebel Akhdar of Oman. (Photo by Tony Waltham).

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Asia, Southwest: A tall canyon cut along joints creates the feeling of an underground wadi prone to flash floods in Kahf Hoti in the Jebel Akhdar of Oman. (Photo by Tony Waltham).

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ABSTRACT

The Asiago Plateau, also called the plateau of 7 ‘Comuni’, is the largest mountain group in the Venetian Pre-Alps and one of the main caving regions in Italy. The plateau area covers c. 600 km2 and is c. 25 km long (north-south) and up to 30 km wide, being delimited by large and steep scarps (Figure 1). The range in elevation is from a few hundred metres to an altitude of 2300 m.