Leon_Vienna's photos with the keyword: Plant

Beach life on Manitoulin ...

Back to my my photo archive HDD - Canada 2007 series can go on. A closer look at the compact and leveled limestone on Manitoulin Island with its structural cracks and glacial scratches. Hard life there ... More about Alvars: english - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar deutsch - de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_(Landform) Two further sites about Canadian Alvars worth seeing, you'll find here - very nicely written and garnished with most beautiful images: - floraofohio.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-bruce-peninsula-part-vi-alvar.html (all seven parts about Bruce Peninsula are worth to look at - in my opinion ... and not even mentioning the rest of this interesting site) - www.meanderphotography.ca/Alvar

Alvar - leveled and massiv limestone, planed by ice age glacier. Non to little soil development during last few thousand years create an envirement for very specialized plant communities. Those stronger cracks have to do with the structure of the limestone, the finer scratches origin from glacial movements during the last ice age. More about Alvars: english - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar deutsch - de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_(Landform) Two further sites about Canadian Alvars worth seeing, you'll find here - very nicely written and garnished with most beautiful images: - floraofohio.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-bruce-peninsula-part-vi-alvar.html (all seven parts about Bruce Peninsula are worth to look at - in my opinion ... and not even mentioning the rest of this interesting site) - www.meanderphotography.ca/Alvar