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Tag Archives: grikes
Clints Crags. An intermittent diary of a limestone pavement
Clints Crags are part of a limestone complex not far from where I live (see elsewhere on this blog). The complex has three disused quarries, limestone outcrops, sinkholes, drystone walls in various levels of disrepair, and limestone pavement. The pavement … Continue reading
Posted in geology, LIMESTONE, limestone pavements, limestone scenery
Tagged clints, grikes, lichens, mosses, seasons
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Limestone: ‘pavement’ plants
Great Asby Scar, in the Orton Fells on the east side of Cumbria, is one of the best limestone pavements in Britain. From Victorian times until fairly recently, areas of the pavement were plundered and damaged due to the fashion … Continue reading
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Tagged clints, ferns, Great Asby Scar, grikes, Romano-British
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Limestone: the language of pavements
Clints, grikes, karst, karren and kamenitsas – they are evidence of the power of water in its liquid or frozen state, the power that sculpts limestone to form ‘pavements’. Smooth surfaces, reflecting light from the sky when wet; slippery underfoot; … Continue reading
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Tagged Carboniferous, clints, Great Asby Scar, grikes, kamenitsa, karren, Westmorland Dales
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