Looking at this map, can you identify three countries that appear to have large karst regions? Use an atlas or Google Maps to help you.
Managing information and thinking:
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River flowing into swallow hole Other rock (mainly shale) Limestone
Burren National Park Poll na gColm Ballyvaughan Aillwee Caves Slieve Elva Mullaghmore
Cliffs of Moher
Kilfenora Corofin
Weathering by carbonation has made a unique and interesting landscape in the Burren. Both on the surface and below the ground, there are features formed by carbonation.
Galway Bay The Burren, Co. Clare
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Weathering
In 1651, a Cromwellian officer named Ludlow remarked of the Burren, ‘There is not water enough to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him.’
