Limestone Pavements

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Limestone Pavements

• Karst Scenery

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Limestone is an alkaline rock. It is a hard rock
but it reacts with acidic rain and dissolves
away. Little material is left on the surface to
form soil. So it appears as bare rock. The
landscape can look very barren.
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Limestone scenery has lots of exposed rock
sometimes forming a surface known as a limestone
pavement.
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You can see that the surface is covered in lots
of cracks.Water has laid in these cracks for long
periods, slowly dissolving the limestone, opening
them out and making them larger.
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The flat bare surfaces are called CLINTS and the
large cracks where the water builds up are called
GRYKES.
CLINT
GRYKE
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