KRAS (THE CLASSICAL KARST)
AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF KARST SCIENCE
KRAS (KLASIČNI KRAS) IN
RAZVOJ ZNANOSTI O KRASU
ANDREJ
KRANJC1
Izvleček
UDK 551.44
Andrej Kranjc: Kras (klasični Kras)
in razvoj znanosti o krasu
Avtor na kratko predstavi pokrajino
Kras, odkoder izvira termin kras, pojasni izvor in pomen
imena ter vzroke, ki so privedli do tega, da je ravno ta
pokrajina dala ime splošnemu pojavu. Podrobneje navaja
avtorje, ki so ime Kras (Karst) razširili na vse pokrajine
na apnencih (sredi 19. stoletja) in avtorje oziroma dela, ki
so konec 19. in v začetku 20. stoletja utemeljili vedo
krasoslovje.
Ključne besede: krasoslovje,
zgodovina krasoslovja, termin kras, Slovenija,
Kras.
Abstract
UDC 551.44
Andrej Kranjc: Kras (The Classical
Karst) and the development of karst science
The author presents the main
characteristics of the country Kras, from where the term
karst is derived, the origin and the meaning of the name
itself and the reasons why just this country is the "locus
typicus" of the term. In more detail he speaks about the
authors who spread the word karst for limestone countries in
general (in the middle of the 19th century) and also the
authors who founded the karstology as science at the end of
the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
Key words: karstology, history of
karstology, term karst, Slovenia, Kras.
1 Karst Research
Institute ZRC SAZU, Titov trg 2, SI-6230 POSTOJNA,
SLOVENIA
Prejeto/received:
1.5.1998
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