The document discusses limestone landscapes and cave formation. It provides tasks to label features of limestone scenery on a diagram, including joints, bare rock surfaces, stumpy calcite features, cracks, dry valleys, hanging icicle-like calcite features, and holes eroded by water. Links are given for myths and legends associated with Wookey Hole cave and the Petrifying Well. The reader is directed to an animation explaining how caves form through the dissolving of limestone by groundwater on The Geographer Online website.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yefQb1y6uQg

2. Tasks:
1. Stick in the diagram of limestone scenery leaving some space around the
edge.
2. Describe the different features by adding defintions to your diagram.

3. Definitions
• An enlarged joint into which water falls
• A bare rocky surface with distinctive blocks and
enlarged joints
• A stumpy calcite feature formed on a cavern floor
• A crack or line of weakness in a rock
• A valley formed left behind by a river during a wetter
period but now without a river
• An icicle like calcite feature hanging down from a
cavern roof
• A large hole underground left behind by water eroding
the rock

4. http://www.mothershiptonscave.com/media.html
http://www.wookey.co.uk/witch.htm
Myths and legends associated with limestone landscapes:
Wookey Hole cave, Somerset
Petrifying well, Yorkshire
See its magical
cascading waters
turn items into
stone!

6. How do caves form?
Watch the animation on The Geographer Online

7. How do caves form?
Watch the animation on The Geographer Online