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Aleksander Panjek and Gregor Kovačič

Figure 2 Gregor Kovačič Next to the Ponor in the Lowest Part of the Jezero doline
Author Aleksander Panjek

celerated the corrosion of the carbonate bedrock and thus influenced the
deepening and widening (flattening of the bottom) of the doline. The ef-
ficient deepening of the doline was undoubtedly favoured by its location
on the axis of the Raša Fault, where the carbonate rock in the bedrock is
more fractured compared to the surrounding rock. Material transport in
the northwestern part of the doline must have been considerable, at least
in the initial phase of formation, as surface water created a well-shaped

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