Paper 1 · 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
