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  • In the Late Pleistocene the caves were open to the surface allowing sediment and bones to accumulate in their entrances and dolines, the most significant of these accumulations being those of Victoria Fossil Cave.

    Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia 2009

  • The caves are a well preserved and unique example of a karstic cave system, vast underground river galleries and dolines which contain a number of internationally threatened species.

    Skocjan Caves Regional Park, Slovenia 2008

  • The following are so designated: the last 150m of the canyon before the entrance to Skocjan Caves, the collapsed dolines Mala dolina and Velika dolina, all the caves, in the Park, and a dripstone formation on the surface near the Lipje cave.

    Skocjan Caves Regional Park, Slovenia 2008

  • It contains one of the largest underground canyons in the world, 5 km of underground passages, caves more than 200 meters (m) deep, dramatic collapsed dolines and many waterfalls.

    Skocjan Caves Regional Park, Slovenia 2008

  • Landform is very complex, typified by impressive karstic landforms (deep canyons, such as Samaria Gorge, poljes, and dolines).

    Crete Mediterranean forests 2008

  • Karst systems (caves, poljes, dolines, and canyons) are very frequent within the central Apennines Mountain summits.

    Appenine deciduous montane forests 2008

  • Karst systems (caves, poljes, dolines, and canyons) are very frequent in the central Apennines.

    Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests 2008

  • Features include cave systems, natural arches, clints and grikes, dolines, karren, pinnacles and blind valleys.

    Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia 2008

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