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Grike, may
refer to:
Grike or gryke, a
feature of
limestone pavements Grike (Lake District), a hill in the
English Lake
District Grike, a
character in...
- in
geological terms.
Solutional processes have
widened and
deepened the
grikes of the
limestone pavement. Pre-existing
lines of
weakness in the rock (vertical...
- is
composed of
limestone pavements with
crisscrossing cracks known as "
grikes",
leaving isolated rocks called "clints". The
limestones date from the Visean...
- ramsons.
Rarer species to be
found in the
grikes include baneberry and
downy currant.
Ferns in the
moist grikes include rigid buckler-fern. Also to be found...
- is
composed of
limestone pavements with
crisscrossing cracks known as "
grikes",
leaving isolated rocks called "clints". The
limestones date from the Viséan...
- the past
tense of the verb to 'outgribe',
connected with the old verb to '
grike' or 'shrike',
which derived 'shriek' and 'creak' and
hence 'squeak'. Rath:...
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occupy a wide
range of habitats,
including shingle beaches in full sun and
grikes in
limestone pavements.
Despite these neutral-sounding values, it is primarily...
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limestone exposed to the
elements which eroded it and left us with the
grikes and
clints we see today. The
limestone has been used for many
purposes including...
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limestone can
produce slabs called clints isolated by deep
fissures called grikes or
grykes (terms
derived from a
northern English dialect). If the grykes...
- like. Over time, the
surface terrain breaks up into
clints separated by
grikes and
punctuated by
sinkholes into
which streams may disappear,
crevices expand...
