BOGAZ

bogaz: translation

   1. (Slavic.) An elongated depression in limestone or karst terrain; thus it embraces a defile, a blind valley or a ravine leading to a ponor. It can be considered as a giant grike. This meaning is based on the Serbian use [20].

   2. A variable-discharge artesian spring in which hydrostatic pressure is great enough to cause a turbulent or even fountain-like discharge.

   3. A long narrow chasm enlarged by solution of the limestone [10].

   4. Large linear fissure or box valley through a karst block. Effectively a giant grike, perhaps 50 m deep and 1 km long, formed by dissolution on a fault or joint in very massive limestone [9].

   Synonyms: (French.) défilé, bogaz; (German.) Doline, Karstgaße, Blindtal, Zangön; (Greek.) faragothis doline; (Spanish.) zanjón; (Turkish.) bog \# !!!az; (Yugoslavia.) bogaz.

   See also canyon; gorge; grike; corridor; struga; zanjón.