Meaning of ponor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village and commune of Alba County, Romania.
2. A natural surface opening associated with karst.
3. A village in Pui, Hunedoara County, Romania.

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Examples

“As long as the total capacity q of the spring is smaller than the total capacity q₂ of the ponor, no flooding of the polje will occur.”

“The only permanent sea ponor in the world is the sea mill of Argostoli, located on Kefalonia Island in the Ionian Sea (Greece) (Glanz, 1965).”

“Ponors are one of the symbol features of karst regions, and crucial features from a hydrogeological and geotechnical point of view.”

“The characteristic features of the ponors of glaciokarst mainly manifest in the fact that they were mostly formed in karstic depressions or in glacial erosional depressions.”

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