ABSTRACT
One of the basic tenets of climatic geomorphology is that essentially similar landforms will result from comparable morphogenetic conditions. This view is widely held in Europe and particularly so amongst karst geomorphologists, for it is argued that karst processes are especially susceptible to climatic control. The length, width, depth and long axis azimuth of 77 depressions were measured in the field, and analysis of the data revealed the dolines to tend closely to circularity and thus to display little evidence of preferred orientation. Subterranean aspects of karst have attracted morphometric interest, from considerations of the changing geometry of cave structures and stochastic models of cave evolution, to the minute forms of scallops and flutes. The morphometric research described thus far indicates that only the barest beginnings have been made in the study of spatial distributions and associations in karst. The karsts display a remarkable similarity in spatial organisation.
