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Limestone pavement

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36: 130: 20: 47: 117:). If the grykes are fairly straight and the clints are uniform in size, the resemblance to man-made paving stones is striking, but they are not necessarily so regular. Limestone pavements that develop beneath a mantle of 73:. The term is mainly used in the UK and Ireland, where many of these landforms have developed distinctive surface patterning resembling paving blocks. Similar landforms in other parts of the world are known as 114: 141:
Limestone pavements can be found in many previously glaciated limestone environments around the world. Notable examples are found in the
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in water and especially in acid rain, so corrosive drainage along joints and cracks in the limestone can produce slabs called
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Natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone
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Detail of the large limestone pavement in the Yorkshire Dales between
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Conditions for limestone pavements are created when an advancing
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leaving behind a flat, bare surface. Limestone is slightly
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landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed
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Ingleborough
Pen-y-ghent

Malham Cove

Julian Alps
karst
limestone
pavement
alvars
glacier
bedded
glacial retreat
soluble
northern English dialect
topsoil

Orton Scar
Yorkshire Dales
Cumbria
Malham Cove
Ingleborough
Grange-over-Sands
Stora Alvaret
Ă–land
Sweden
the Burren
County Clare
Ireland

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