A bowl-shaped depression in the ground caused by subsidence or the dissolution of underlying rock.
Variant of 'dolina,' from South Slavic origins, standardized in English geological terminology for karst landscape features.
Geologists use 'doline' when they want to sound more professional than 'sinkhole'—but they mean the same dramatic collapse where solid ground suddenly isn't.
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