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geography physical question?

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  • 05-06-2010 4:19pm
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    polo5534
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    LANDFORM DEVELOPMENT
    Examine, with the aid of labelled diagram/diagrams, the processes which have shaped one Irish landform of your choice.



    Could i start talkin about how a landform produced by weathering is limestone and example of this is the burren?


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    Victoria.
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    polo5534 wrote: »
    LANDFORM DEVELOPMENT
    Examine, with the aid of labelled diagram/diagrams, the processes which have shaped
    one Irish landform of your choice.



    Could i start talkin about how a landform produced by weathering is limestone and example of this is the burren?


    Yes you could but there's always the worry that they may specify Glacial, Fluvial or Coastal landforms only, hasn't happened yet.


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    Leeg17
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    The question askes (1) For a landform, and (2) To describe the processes that form it.

    If you're using Limestone, you could say that limestone is eroded more quick than a harder rock, and if there are different layers of rock a waterfall may develop. Then you could mention abrasion from the river's load, backsplash from a drop and other erosive processes which serve to create a waterfall.

    As Victoria said they may specify a type of landform, but in the past this hasn't happened. They haven't, but could.
    I hope this makes some sense.


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    Trogdor
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    polo5534 wrote: »
    LANDFORM DEVELOPMENT
    Examine, with the aid of labelled diagram/diagrams, the processes which have shaped one Irish landform of your choice.



    Could i start talkin about how a landform produced by weathering is limestone and example of this is the burren?

    I don't think it would quite fit, a limestone region would more be a landscape. And simply disucussing the formation of limestone is more part of the rock cycle and is not really a landform. Dicussing the formation of one aspect present in a limestone region however would be fine i'd say (e.g. caves, stalactites, sinkholes etc)


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    fufureida
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    trogdor wrote: »
    I don't think it would quite fit, a limestone region would more be a landscape. And simply disucussing the formation of limestone is more part of the rock cycle and is not really a landform. Dicussing the formation of one aspect present in a limestone region however would be fine i'd say (e.g. caves, stalactites, sinkholes etc)

    No your wrong. A karst landscape counts as a distinctive landform.

    Throwing in something about a cave at the end would be ok. Focus tge answer on the karst landscape. It is a landform because it has limestone payment, grykes, runnels, clints... All of that.


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