The water drips down over the mountainside, coating the rocks in calcium carbonate that has accumulated over millennia to form a white limestone crust. The travertines of Pamukkale have grown so ...

Put simply, limestone is a type of rock that is formed by organisms ... Crushed limestone is sharp and rough with a grey or ...

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 ...

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.