Paper 1 · June 2004 · Slope Processes and Weathering

In limestone regions, what term describes the exposed, flat limestone surface dissected by widened joints (grikes) into flat blocks (clints)?

Model answer

limestone pavement

Explanation

A limestone pavement forms where a bare limestone surface has its joints widened by carbonation weathering, splitting it into flat blocks called clints separated by open fissures called grikes.

Derived from ZIMSEC Geography Paper 1, June 2004, Q6

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