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STRANGE BUT TRUE! 23
Meaning “where one cannot walk,”
Grand Tsingy is an isolated wilderness FAST FACTS
in Madagascar’s Tsingy de Bemaraha
national park. Its limestone rock has been
eroded into a grid-like pattern of dead-
straight canyons called grikes, topped with
dangerously craggy spears. Though the
entire area appears gray rather than green,
plant life flourishes between the peaks.
The canyon walls Groundwater flowing along
are up to 328 m fracture lines in the rock cut
(100 ft) tall. caves in the limestone of Grand
Tsingy, while monsoon rains
eroded the surface.
Over millions of years the water
continued to erode the caves,
causing them to expand and
merge into deep, narrow
underground caverns.
The cave ceilings then collapsed,
exposing the network of towering
canyons we see today, topped
with sharp peaks carved by
surface erosion.
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