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The Lorette Cave & the Geopark Information Center
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A major geosite housing the Geopark Information Center, Lorette Cave brings together tourism, education, and cutting-edge research across 6 km of underground galleries. Once carved by a now-vanished subterranean river, the system is home to an extraordinary underground laboratory. Built directly along an active fault line, this facility studies earthquakes, rock mass dynamics, and groundwater movement. Its entry point lies at the Val d'Enfer—an impressive collapse sinkhole—where visitors can view the surroundings and an experimental display pavilion during opening hours.
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Karst is a term that refers to all the surface and underground features resulting from the erosion of largely carbonate rocks: hollow depressions (sink-holes or dolines), dry valleys, river swallow holes (adugeoirs and chantoirs), major springs re-emerging from under the earth (resurgences), and caves and caverns (grottes, gouffres) of all shapes and sizes. The term itself derives from the eponymous region of Carso or Kras, a limestone plateau located for the most part in Slovenia but also extending into Italy and Croatia. A fluvial terrace (fluviatile) is a flattish ledge along one or both sides of a valley forming the bed of a former watercourse into which the water has sunk. A terrace may also be alluvial, created by the deposition of sediments, or flattened out by the erosion of either a rocky bed (strath terrace), or of an earlier terrace (entrenched terrace).
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