UIS Commission on Karst Hydrogeology and Speleogenesis
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Glossary

Glossary of Karst and Cave Terms

stylolite
An irregular suture-like boundary developed along some bedding planes in limestones, probably caused by dissolution under pressure and possibly related in some cases to subsequent inception of speleogenesis [9 [.