While landscaping brings greenery to many people’s minds, rocks are an important part of landscaping, too. Perhaps more accurately a hardscaping element, the various types of landscaping rocks add a ...

Limestone Pavements are bare limestone rock surfaces composed of slabs of rock (clints), separated by variable-width vertical cracks (grikes) . These grikes have developed by weathering and enhanced ...

ROCKFORD — Carp jump in the Shell Rock River. Geese call as they swoop over the green rippling waterway. Taking it all in is longtime Rockford resident Richard Messier, surveying the woodsy scene from ...

If you wanted to create a new UNESCO World Heritage Site, you might well look to the limestone landscape, or karst, on the Sangkulirang Peninsula in eastern Borneo. There, in the Indonesian province ...

A natural opening in the rock which is large enough to be entered by a person and extends to points where daylight does not penetrate. Underground rivers dissolve the limestone and carry it away to ...

DO HILLWALKERS SHUN the Burren? We tend to think the only hiking destinations around these parts are in Connemara or Mayo. Sure there’s no mountains in the Burren. But walking here is unlike anywhere ...