limestone pavement

noun

1. geology a horizontal surface of exposed limestone in which the joints have been enlarged, cutting the surface into roughly rectangular blocks See also clint grike

Example Sentences

The trail runs past the “Checkerboard,” a limestone pavement formation, and Jeffrey’s Cave.

From Washington Post

They filmed “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” at the top where there’s a limestone pavement, a natural geological phenomenon.

From New York Times

Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers – illegal under international law – and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.

From The Guardian

He shows us "clints" and "grykes", which sound like they might be rude, but are actually the slabs and fissures of a limestone pavement.

From The Guardian

It will be seen hereafter that these appendages are homologous with certain organs in other Holothurians, the warts with the anchors corresponding to the limestone pavement covering or partially covering the surface of the Cuvieria, for instance, while those without anchors correspond to the so-called false ambulacra in Pentacta.

From Project Gutenberg