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3.3 - Cockpit Karst

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  • ✓Recognise karst landforms as distinctive features formed in limestone areas.
  • ✓Describe cockpit karst as a karst landscape of conical hills and enclosed hollows.
  • ✓Identify Jamaica as the Caribbean example where cockpit karst is found.
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Imagine trying to travel across a landscape of steep, cone-shaped hills with deep hollows between them, like walking across an egg-carton! Cockpit karst is one of the Caribbean’s most dramatic limestone landscapes and is a signature feature of Jamaica. This landform shows how slow chemical weathering can sculpt huge features over long periods of time. Example: Jamaica’s Cockpit Country is the classic Caribbean example of cockpit karst.
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Imagine trying to travel across a landscape of steep, cone-shaped hills with deep hollows between them, like walking across an egg-carton! Cockpit karst is one of the Caribbean’s most dramatic limestone landscapes and is a signature feature of Jamaica. This landform shows how slow chemical weathering can sculpt huge features over long periods of time. Example: Jamaica’s Cockpit Country is the classic Caribbean example of cockpit karst.
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