December 13, 2005
The Röhrenkarren effect
If you've wandered about the northern shores of Lough Corrib, you might have noticed that some of the limestone slabs at the water's edge are as holey as a road sign in Kentucky. The holes are actually caused by the water dissolving the limestone upwards - and is explained excellently here - and the phenomenom can be seen on Lough Mask and Carra as well. You'll find a bunch of these stones as part of a garden wal outside a house, on the road down to the quay outside Cong, and the photo above was taken on Inishmicatreer, on a hot, still day during the summer.
The process is known as the Röhrenkarren effect (more geographical features should sound like characters from Len Deighton novels, don't you think?) and was figured out by Michael Simms (his full paper used to be freely available on Google Scholar, which is where I read it, but it will cost you 30 dollars to download it now).
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Posted by Monasette at December 13, 2005 03:06 AM
sure u have seen this before though u might like the read
http://offalyhistory.com/content/reading_resources/books_articles/north_shooting.htm
This isn't about anything in particular. It's just to say that I look at a lot of blogs and photo blogs and yours is easily the most interesting one I know. Your writing is as engaging as your photography and your love of the land shines through it all. It's nearly always worthwhile to follow up on your links. Your scholarship is lightly worn, but it's clear that a lot of reseach lies behind what you bring to us. So this is really a thank you and a very strong hope that you will keep on keeping on. I could wish that all the beautiful places in the world had loving advocates like you.
Posted by: Michael at December 15, 2005 11:14 PM