It is fairly easy to identify limestone features on an OS map. The names of features are shown on the map, eg Raven Scar or White Scar Caves. You can also see intermittent drainage patterns as the ...

To Jeffrey Wolin, the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center in New York City represent the limestone ”landscapes” of mountains moved by men in the stone quarries of southern Indiana. Wolin, a ...

Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has made a habit of bucking the trend by working to safeguard neglected landscapes that are not necessarily a priority for other conservation organizations. Arguably ...

A unique seminar entitled Interpreting the Landscape, takes place in the Model Arts and Niland Gallery on Thursday 10th March at 3.30 pm, to coincide with the opening of The Limestone Barrens Project ...

Limestone Pavements are bare limestone rock surfaces composed of slabs of rock (clints), separated by variable-width vertical cracks (grikes) . These grikes have developed by weathering and enhanced ...

If you wanted to create a new UNESCO World Heritage Site, you might well look to the limestone landscape, or karst, on the Sangkulirang Peninsula in eastern Borneo. There, in the Indonesian province ...

ROCKFORD — Carp jump in the Shell Rock River. Geese call as they swoop over the green rippling waterway. Taking it all in is longtime Rockford resident Richard Messier, surveying the woodsy scene from ...

The relationship between people and the landscape is as inseparable as that of our connection with the air we must breathe if we are not to become, in short order, a part of the landscape.People exist ...

The relative importance of these land uses will vary depending on the nature of the rocks and the physical landscape. Water storage and supply will be more important in a glaciated area such as the ...