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Explain Cutter

Cutter Explained!

Cutter Technical Terms

Cutter: A dissolution groove or trench formed along vertical bedrock fractures beneath soil and usually buried beneath regolith with little or no ground surface expression, commonly wider than a solution fissure (widths commonly range from 0.5 to 3 meters) and tapering down to a crack or a bedrock floored trench; also called grike (not preferred), or subsurface karren. Compare – karren, solution fissure, solution corridor. SW & WW



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