page_title: List of karst areas
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: List of karst areas / North America / United States
caption_attribution_description: Mammoth_Cave_National_Park (Kentucky)
context_page_description: Karst topography is a geological formation shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite, but also in gypsum. It has also been documented for weathering-resistant rocks, such as quartzite, given the right conditions. This is an incomplete list of the major karst landscape areas of the world.
context_section_description: Alaska
  Kosciusko Island, southeastern Alaska
  Arizona
  Texas Canyon, Cochise County
  Illinois
  Illinois Caverns State Natural Area and Illinois Sinkhole Plain in Monroe County
  Indiana
  Mitchell Plain and uplands of southern Indiana
  Kentucky
  Bluegrass region of Kentucky
  Mammoth Cave region
  Michigan
  Presque Isle County near and around Rogers City
  Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near Munising, Michigan
  Missouri, Arkansas
  Ozark Plateau of Missouri and Arkansas
  Nevada
  Lehman Caves located within Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada
  New Mexico
  Carlsbad Caverns National Park
  Oklahoma
  Arbuckle Mountains and Arbuckle Uplift
  Kamas Ranch and Alabaster Cavern area
  Oregon
  Deschutes River basin
  South Dakota
  Black Hills (Wind Cave, Jewel Cave)
  Tennessee
  Cumberland Plateau
  Grassy Cove Karst Area
  Texas
  Texas Hill Country, Texas and its northern extensions, including the Palo Pinto Mountains
  Utah
  Ricks Spring in northeast Utah
  Virginia
  Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
  West Virginia
  Germany Valley Karst Area
  Smoke Hole Canyon
  Greenbrier River watershed
  Swago Karst Area
  Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois
  Driftless Area of southwest Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and northwest Illinois
caption: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
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