Geographical Features: Limestone
| Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:33 silverwhiskers |
This gallery is arranged by grouping images of limestone topography which illustrate particular aspects of its character. This is only a sample of what can be found on the site, so a visit to the grid square represented by any of these pictures, or their immediate neighbours, may reveal more of interest. Members are welcome to add further collections, either documented by aspect, locality, region, or geological type. Images can be used quite usefully in more than one set, so duplication (within reason) may be appropriate. |
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| Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:01 silverwhiskers |
Limestone Caves
   
  
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| Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:16 silverwhiskers |
Limestone Exposures and Cliffs showing Strata Silurian (Wenlock) Limestone at Wren's Nest, Dudley.        Silurian (Aymestry) Limestone near Munslow, Shropshire   (Others)                      (Gallery under development. More to come, with better type differentiation) |
| Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:37 silverwhiskers |
Limestone exposures in existing working quarries  |
| Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:25 silverwhiskers |
Fossils in Limestone.
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| Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:15 silverwhiskers |
Chalk Exposures Wiltshire and Bedfordshire      Kent, Sussex and Surrey      Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk          Devon and Dorset   |
| Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:14 silverwhiskers |
County Clare, The Burren.      North Yorkshire.      Cumbria            [ Four key points highlighted on the Limestone Pavements Action Group website: http://www.limestone-pavements.org.uk/ • Limestone pavement is a globally rare habitat which is threatened by extraction for the rock garden and water feature trade. • Limestone pavements are outcrops of rocks where the surface has been dissolved by water over millions of years into ‘paving blocks’. • Limestone pavements are home to a number of rare and unusual plants. • There is very little limestone pavement found anywhere in the world, and Britain and Ireland have much of this very rare habitat. Other source links: http://www.lbap.org.uk/bap/habitat/limestone.htm http://www.yorkshire-dales.com/limestone-pavements.html |
| Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:32 Gwen and James |
 Resurregence stream in Cheddar Gorge. Stream flows out from the permeable Limestone, as it meets impermable rock. |
| Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:08 Lis Burke |
Inchnadamph Notable for sink holes and caves        |
| Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:33 tms13 |
An underground photo and a semi-underground one showing vastly different scales of limestone features:  |
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