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A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement. [1] The term is mainly used in the UK and Ireland, where many of these landforms have developed distinctive surface patterning resembling paving blocks. [2] Similar landforms in other parts of the ...
Dunmore Cave. Dunmore Cave (from Irish Dún Mór 'great fort') is a limestone solutional cave in Ballyfoyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is formed in Lower Carboniferous ( Viséan) limestone of the Clogrenan Formation. [2] It is a show cave open to the public, particularly well known for its rich archaeological discoveries and for being the ...
The Caves of Kesh, also known as the Keash Caves or the Caves of Keshcorran ( Irish: Uaimheanna na Céise [1] ), are a series of limestone caves located near the village of Keash, County Sligo, Ireland. The caves are situated on the west side of Keshcorran Hill (part of the Bricklieve Mountains) and consist of sixteen simple chambers, some ...
The geology of Ireland consists of the study of the rock formations on the island of Ireland. It includes rocks from every age from Proterozoic to Holocene and a large variety of different rock types is represented. The basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway together with geologically significant sections of the adjacent coast have been ...
Green's Bridge, or Greensbridge, is an elegant, Palladian -style, limestone arch bridge that crosses the river Nore in Kilkenny, Ireland. [1] The bridge is a series of five elliptical arches of high-quality carved limestone masonry with a two-arch culvert to the east. [1] [3] Its graceful profile, architectural design value, and civil ...
Kilkenny marble or Kilkenny black marble is a fine-grained very dark grey carboniferous limestone found around County Kilkenny in Ireland in the "Butlersgrove Formation ", a Lower Carboniferous limestone that contains fossils of brachiopods, gastropods, crinoids and corals. [1] The first and main source was the "Black Quarry" in the townlands ...
Permeable paving. Permeable paving surfaces are made of either a porous material that enables stormwater to flow through it or nonporous blocks spaced so that water can flow between the gaps. Permeable paving can also include a variety of surfacing techniques for roads, parking lots, and pedestrian walkways. Permeable pavement surfaces may be ...
Limestone. Limestone ( calcium carbonate CaCO3) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of CaCO3. Limestone forms when these minerals precipitate out of water containing dissolved calcium.
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