Murphy, PJ orcid.org/0000-0001-9660-7840 (2022) The Paradox of the Pavements – How the Cultural Value of Limestone Pavements Resulted in Widespread Damage to These Landforms Across Northern Britain and What Has Been Done about it. Geoconservation Research, 5 (2). pp. 321-326. ISSN 2645-4661
Abstract
Limestone pavements, formed in part as a result of glacial scour, are highly valued parts of the landscape of northern Britain. They have been quarried extensively for use in both gardening and for landscaping in urban recreational spaces. Legal protection was provided in the 1980s and extraction has since been halted in England. This has been a geoconservation success story but there are ongoing concerns that damage may have been displaced to other areas of the British Isles.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Author(s) 2022, this article is published with open access at https://gcr.isfahan.iau.ir/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. |
Keywords: | Limestone pavement; Karst; Landscape; Garden; Geoconservation; Protection. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst of Geophysics and Tectonics (IGT) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2023 12:06 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2023 12:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Geoconservation Research |
Identification Number: | 10.30486/gcr.2022.1969193.1115 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201267 |