North Yorkshire Geography Pilot Project

Clints and Grikes

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The limestone making up the limestone pavement is hard and unusually pure.

This means that the rock is firm in blocks but where chemical action takes place, the rock is almost completely dissolved. As a result, the grikes can deepen without limit to the full depth of the limestone.

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