1)What is karst?
2)What are tors?
3What is scree?
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Answer:
1)Landscape underlain by limestone which has been eroded by dissolutio,prooducing ridges,towers,fissures,sinkholes and other characteristic landforms.
2)Tors can be described as conspicuous rock masses rising above regolith-covered surfaces and are common features of elevated granitic terrains.Tors are important because their preservation provides storng evidence of cold-bottomed ice.
3)A mass of small loose stones that form or cover slope on a mountain.
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karst :Karst is a landscape with distinctive hydrology and landforms that arise when the underlying rock is soluble.
Tors : A tor, which is also known by geomorphologists as either a castle koppie or kopje, is a large, free-standing rock outcrop that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest.
scree :The term scree refers to an accumulation of pieces of broken rock. These rocks have come loose from surrounding cliffs and mountainsides during rockfalls.