Limestone Pavement

May 13

Limestone clints and grykes on our hiking path
Limestone is permeable rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate. (An ingredient in antacids!)
Water enters its pores, joints or cracks and slowly dissolve it, resulting in all sorts of interesting formations, like caves, sinkholes, and pavements. Clints are the slabs in a pavement and grykes are the fissures.
We’ve been hiking along this one for a while, and the patterns fascinate me every time.
Nature’s art.