Limestone pavements are made up of large slabs of rock called clints, interspersed with cracks called grikes that can be a few meters deep. Living in these grikes is a secret world of plant life ...

Limestone pavements are made up of large slabs of rock called clints, interspersed with cracks called grikes that can be a few metres deep. Living in these grikes is a secret world of plant life, ...

Limestone pavements, and the unique plants and wildlife they provide a habitat for, are under threat in north-west England, a new study has found. Lancaster University has repeated a study ...

Gait Barrows national nature reserve is considered to be one of Britain's most important limestone landscapes [BBC] Limestone pavements, and the unique plants and wildlife they provide a habitat ...

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 ...