Manitoulin Island, Pavement Alvar at Misery Bay - 2007

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