Limestone pavements in the British Isles: a review.

The Geographical Journal | November 1, 1995| | Copyright

No one walking in the Burren hills of County, Clare, or in the Ingleborough district of Yorkshire, can fail to be impressed by limestone pavements. These naked expanses of rock, once scoured by glaciers and now fretted by solution, have long intrigued geomorphologists (Sweeting, 1966; Williams, 1966). Some researchers have focused their attention on the various karren types which dissect many bare pavements (Goldie, 1973, 1981; Vincent, 1983; Rose and Vincent, 1986) while others, such as Jones (1965) and Trudgill (1985), have investigated the influence of plains and the soil ...

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