ABSTRACT
Cone karst (Kegelkarst) landscapes represent some of the most spectacular and complex terrain developed on carbonate rocks, particularly in the humid tropics. The generally conical carbonate hills (cones) may be isolated from each other visually or share lower ground surfaces such as pedestals or ridge remnants. In some cone karst areas discrete cones protrude from a near-planar surrounding corrosion surface, which may be alluviated and traversed by allogenic rivers that flow from outside the karst area. In other areas the cones have overlapping flanks and/or are separated by more-or-less enclosed depressions (cockpits), such that the cones form deeply serrated ridges surrounding depressions in a polygonal arrangement that has been described as “egg box” topography (Ford & Williams, 1989).
