Carboniferous Limestone

Question 0

A surface feature of limestone?

Answer 0

Limestone pavement

Question 1

Some places where you find limestone in Britain is?

Answer 1

North Yorkshire moors, Peak District, Yorkshire dales

Question 2

Describe a limestone pavement?

Answer 2

Consist of natural paving stones called grykes and clints

Question 3

The joints are weakened by?

Answer 3

The process of carbonation and solvetion

Question 4

A swallow hole is?

Answer 4

A vertical hole created by water eroding it’s way through the permeable rock

Question 5

Stalagmites and stalag tights are formed when?

Answer 5

Water drips from the top of the cavern and the water evaporates and leaves a little calcium carbonate behind

Question 6

Gorges form when?

Answer 6

A cavern collapses in in its self because the water has eroded it to thin to hold up

Question 7

Intermitted drainage is?

Answer 7

When after heavy rain the underground streams have to flow overground. Because the streams don’t flow over the surface all the time they are called intermittent streams.

Question 8

Limestone land uses include?

Answer 8

Lower ground: fodder is grown for cattle to eat

Upper ground: use for tourists