Anguilla's coral and limestone terrain provide no subsistence possibilities for forests, woodland, pastures, crops, or arable lands.
This is characteristic for karstified limestone terrain.
Cut into the limestone terrain a few miles west of Rabat, they wander across the landscape, disappearing sometimes under modern structures, over cliffs or even under water.
Neanderthal sites are denser to the south, where open forest prevailed and the limestone terrain offered more caves as dwellings.
The river runs through limestone terrain and has steep banks, in certain sections up to 100 metres high.
The area is home to a rich variety of flora, as many plant species are distributed on the limestone terrains of Petrevene's region within Bulgaria.
Bloomington is an area of irregular limestone terrain characterized by sinks, ravines, fissures, underground streams, sinking streams, springs and caves.
Numerous caves developed in limestone terrains had been inventoried in the past for presence of phosphate - guano deposits.
The term pseudokarst is applied to landforms in non-carbonate rocks which are morphologically similar to those characteristic of limestone terrains.
Most days, Liang Bangfen can be found just outside the village on one of the narrow paths that have been sliced into the limestone terrain.