Underground Feature of Karst Landscape
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| Name one example of a Karst Landscape that you have studied. | Karst landscapes of The Burren, Co. Clare.
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| How is a limestone pavement formed and give an example. | A limestone Pavement is an area of flat, exposed blocks of limestone, which are separated by deep, intersecting joints.
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| Name 1 underground feature and explain how it was formed. | Cave. It's formed when a river disappears down through a swallow hole, it carves out large passages, known as caverns.
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| What is dissolution and how does it occur? | The reversal of carbonation and it occurs when the water evaporates, allowing the carbon dioxide in the solution to escape.
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| How do stalactites occur ? | They occur on the roofs of caves & caverns hanging downwards, towards the floor.
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| What are pillars and how do they occur? | Pillars form when stalagmites and stalactites grow towards each other and eventually join together. AKA Columns.
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| What are curtains and how do they occur? | Curtains form when water containing dissolved limestone runs along a crack in the roof of a cave.
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| How do flowstones occur? | Flowstones occur hen sheets of dripstone form on the walls or floors of caves.
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| Name the stages of Karst. | Youthful, Mature and Old.
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| What happens in the youthful stage of a Karst region. |
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