CLASSICAL KARST

   Originally the region called Kras in Slovenia, which gave its name to the karst landscape. Used in this sense about 95% of the classical karst lies in Slovenia, with the remaining 5% extending to Italy. A slightly different area was covered by descriptions of early investigations or karst phenomena, when the name classical karst was applied to a region between Ljubljana, Gorizia and Rijeka, mainly in Slovenia with some parts in Italy and Croatia [9].