单词 | sotch |
释义 | sotch Physical Geogr.|səʊtʃ| Pl. sotchs, sotches. [Fr. dialectal word of pre-Latin origin (Robert).] A doline, esp. one in the Causses region of France.
1910H. R. Mill Dict. Geogr. Terms in L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms (1961) 426/2 Sotch, dolines (q.v.) (Causses, France). The term ‘cloup’ is used in Aquitaine. 1922Geol. Mag. LIX. 394 The only fertile and habitable regions on these barren plateaus are the ‘sotches’ or hollows, where the red earth formed by the denudation of the limestone is preserved in large funnel-shaped hollows. 1937Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXIX 63 A detailed study of the karst landscape, showing the important part played by the dolinas or ‘sotchs’ in the dissection of the surface. 1972M. M. Sweeting Karst Landforms iv. 48/2 The sotchs are both circular and elongated, their diameters and depths variable and their topographic situations diverse. |

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