Limestone Scenery Map Recognition and Analysis.

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Limestone Scenery Map Recognition and Analysis.

Key terms to remember …1 Carboniferous Period 300 million years ago marine plants and animals Carbonic acid Carbonation / chemical weathering joints and bedding planes dissolving Glacio Karst

Key terms to remember…2 gorges, scars, dry valleys watersinks, resurgents caves and caverns gas diffusion / CO2 / precipitates Calcite flowstones / dripstones stalactites / stalagmites / pillars

Core Paper 1997

Core Paper 2002

Applications Paper 2001

Applications Paper 2003