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Carboniferous Limestone

Index Carboniferous Limestone

Carboniferous Limestone is a collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland that were deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period. [1]

161 relations: Abraham Darby I, Aillwee Cave, Anglesey, Arnside and Silverdale, Asplenium scolopendrium, Avon Gorge, Ayrshire, Belgium, Benllech, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Berwickshire, Bivalvia, Black Mountain (range), Blorenge, Brachiopod, Brecon Beacons National Park, Bristol, Bronze Age, Bryn Alyn, Burrington Combe, Canyon, Carbonation, Carboniferous, Carmarthen Bay, Carmarthenshire, Central Lowlands, Cheddar Gorge, Chepstow, Cleator Moor, Clevedon, Clwydian Range, Coal, Coal measures, Construction aggregate, Copper, County Clare, Crag Cave, Cribarth, Crinoid, Cwmbran, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Denudation, Dinantian, Dumbarton, East Anglia, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Eglwyseg, Epoch (geology), ..., Fife, Flat Holm, Flue-gas desulfurization, Forest of Dean, Gaping Gill, Geological period, Glacier, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Gordale Scar, Gower Peninsula, Gravel road, Great Britain, Great Orme, Green Bridge of Wales, Greenock, Horton in Ribblesdale, Humphrey Head, Huntsman's Leap, Ice age, Ice sheet, Industrial Revolution, Ingleborough Cave, Ireland, Iron, Ironstone, Isle of Arran, Isle of Man, Karst, Kidwelly, Kirkby Stephen, Lake District, Lancashire, Lead, Lime (material), Limestone, Limestone pavement, List of types of limestone, Little Orme, Little Wenlock, Llandudno, Llangollen, London-Brabant Massif, Lothian, Malham Cove, Malham Tarn, Marble Arch Caves, Menai Strait, Mendip Hills, Mercurialis perennis, Monmouthshire, Morecambe Bay, Mumbles, Mynydd Llangatwg, North Pennines, Northumberland, Oswestry, Oxfordshire, Peak District, Pembrokeshire, Penderyn, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Pentland Hills, Permeability (earth sciences), Pontneddfechan, Pontsticill, Porthcawl, Portland cement, Powys, Puffin Island (Anglesey), Rhossili, River Dove, Central England, River Manifold, River Severn, Ruthin, Saint Govan, Shropshire, Sinkhole, Solway Firth, Somerset, South Pennines, South Wales Coalfield, Southern Uplands, Stackpole Estate, Steep Holm, Stirlingshire, Stump Cross Caverns, Swansea Bay, Swansea Valley, Tenby, The Burren, The Midlands, Titterstone Clee Hill, Trefil, Trypanites, Tunstead, Derbyshire, Undy, Vale of Eden, Vale of Glamorgan, Valley, Wales, Weardale, Weathering, Weston-super-Mare, Whitbarrow, White Peak, White Scar Caves, Wintour's Leap, Wookey Hole, Wye Valley, Yorkshire Dales, Ystradfellte. Expand index (111 more) »

Abraham Darby I

Abraham Darby, in his later life called Abraham Darby the Elder, now sometimes known for convenience as Abraham Darby I (14 April 1678 – 8 March 1717) was the first and best known of several men of that name.

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Aillwee Cave

Aillwee Cave is a cave system in the karst landscape of the Burren in County Clare, Ireland.

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Anglesey

Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island situated on the north coast of Wales with an area of.

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Arnside and Silverdale

Arnside and Silverdale is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England, on the border between Lancashire and Cumbria, adjoining Morecambe Bay.

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Asplenium scolopendrium

Asplenium scolopendrium, known as hart's-tongue or hart's-tongue fern (syn. Phyllitis scolopendrium) is a fern in the genus Asplenium, of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Avon Gorge

The Avon Gorge is a 1.5-mile (2.5-kilometre) long gorge on the River Avon in Bristol, England.

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Ayrshire

Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir) is an historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Benllech

Benllech is large village on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sooth Berwick, Bearaig a Deas) is a town in the county of Northumberland.

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Berwickshire

Berwickshire is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Scottish Borders.

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Bivalvia

Bivalvia, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts.

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Black Mountain (range)

The Black Mountain (Y Mynydd Du) is a mountain range in South and West Wales, straddling the county boundary between Carmarthenshire and Brecknockshire (the latter currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys) and forming the westernmost range of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

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Blorenge

Blorenge or sometimes The Blorenge (Blorens) is a prominent hill overlooking the valley of the River Usk in Monmouthshire, southeast Wales.

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Brachiopod

Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a group of lophotrochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs.

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Brecon Beacons National Park

The Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog) is one of three national parks in Wales, and is centred on the Brecon Beacons range of hills in southern Wales.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Bryn Alyn

Bryn Alyn is a hill and Site of Special Scientific Interest in Denbighshire, North Wales, and forms part of the Clwydian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Burrington Combe

Burrington Combe is a Carboniferous Limestone gorge near the village of Burrington, on the north side of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in North Somerset, England.

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Canyon

A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.

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Carbonation

Carbonation refers to reactions of carbon dioxide to give carbonates, bicarbonates, and carbonic acid.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Carmarthen Bay

Carmarthen Bay (Bae Caerfyrddin) is an inlet of the South Wales coast, including notable beaches such as Pendine Sands and Cefn Sidan sands.

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Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally Sir Gâr) is a unitary authority in the southwest of Wales and is the largest of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Central Lowlands

The Central Lowlands or Midland Valley is a geologically defined area of relatively low-lying land in southern Scotland.

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Cheddar Gorge

Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England.

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Chepstow

Chepstow (Cas-gwent) is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England.

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Cleator Moor

Cleator Moor or is a small town, civil parish and two electoral wards (north and south) in the English county of Cumbria and within the boundaries of the historic county of Cumberland.

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Clevedon

Clevedon is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, which covers part of the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.

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Clwydian Range

The Clwydian Range (Bryniau Clwyd) is a series of hills and mountains in north east Wales that runs from Llandegla in the south to Prestatyn in the north, with the highest point being the popular Moel Famau.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coal measures

The coal measures is a lithostratigraphical term for the coal-bearing part of the Upper Carboniferous System.

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Construction aggregate

Construction aggregate, or simply "aggregate", is a broad category of coarse to medium grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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County Clare

County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the West by the Atlantic Ocean.

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Crag Cave

Crag Cave is a cave in Ireland, located just outside Castleisland, County Kerry.

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Cribarth

Cribarth or Sleeping Giant is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog) in Brecknockshire (administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys), southern Wales.

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Crinoid

Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata).

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Cwmbran

Cwmbran (Cwmbrân, also in use as an alternative spelling in English) is a new town in Wales.

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Denbigh

Denbigh (Dinbych) is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales, of which it was formerly the county town.

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Denbighshire

Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych) is a county in north-east Wales, named after the historic county of Denbighshire, but with substantially different borders.

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Denudation

In geology, denudation involves the processes that cause the wearing away of the Earth's surface by moving water, by ice, by wind and by waves, leading to a reduction in elevation and in relief of landforms and of landscapes.

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Dinantian

Dinantian is the name of a series or epoch from the Lower Carboniferous system in Europe.

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Dumbarton

Dumbarton is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.

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East Lothian

East Lothian (Aest Lowden, Lodainn an Ear), is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Eglwyseg

The Eglwyseg valley is an area to the north east of Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales; it is within the boundaries of Llantysilio Community.

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Epoch (geology)

In geochronology, an epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is longer than an age but shorter than a period.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha) is a council area and historic county of Scotland.

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Flat Holm

Flat Holm (Ynys Echni) is a limestone island lying in the Bristol Channel approximately from Lavernock Point in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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Flue-gas desulfurization

Flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) is a set of technologies used to remove sulfur dioxide from exhaust flue gases of fossil-fuel power plants, and from the emissions of other sulfur oxide emitting processes (e.g trash incineration).

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Forest of Dean

The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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Gaping Gill

Gaping Gill (also known as Gaping Ghyll) is a natural cave in North Yorkshire, England.

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Geological period

A geological period is one of several subdivisions of geologic time enabling cross-referencing of rocks and geologic events from place to place.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Glamorgan

Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Gordale Scar

Gordale Scar is a limestone ravine northeast of Malham, North Yorkshire, England.

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Gower Peninsula

Gower (Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula (Penrhyn Gŵyr) is in South Wales.

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Gravel road

A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Great Orme

The Great Orme or Great Orme's Head (Y Gogarth or Pen y Gogarth) is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, next to the town of Llandudno.

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Green Bridge of Wales

The Green Bridge of Wales is a natural arch formed from Carboniferous Limestone within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Greenock

Greenock (Grianaig) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Horton in Ribblesdale

Horton in Ribblesdale is a small village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Humphrey Head

Humphrey Head is a limestone outcrop situated south of the village of Allithwaite.

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Huntsman's Leap

Huntsman's Leap is a deep, narrow and sheer-sided coastal chasm or geo developed in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ice sheet

An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than, this is also known as continental glacier.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Ingleborough Cave

Ingleborough Cave (formerly known as Clapham Caves) is a show cave close to the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England adjacent to where the water from Gaping Gill resurges.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Ironstone

Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron compound from which iron either can be or once was smelted commercially.

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Isle of Arran

Arran (Eilean Arainn) or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh largest Scottish island, at.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Karst

Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

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Kidwelly

Kidwelly (Cydweli) is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, south west Wales, approximately north-west of the most populous town in the county, Llanelli.

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Kirkby Stephen

Kirkby Stephen is a civil parish and small market town in Cumbria, in North West England which historically, is part of Westmorland.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Lime (material)

Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral in which oxides, and hydroxides predominate.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Limestone pavement

A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement.

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List of types of limestone

This is a list of types of limestone arranged according to location.

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Little Orme

The Little Orme (Rhiwledyn, also known as Trwyn y Fuwch, Trwyn y Gogarth and Y Gogarth Fach) is in height, and is a HuMP (having a minimum Hundred Metre Prominence).

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Little Wenlock

Little Wenlock is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.

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Llandudno

Llandudno is a seaside resort, town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea.

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Llangollen

Llangollen is a small town and community in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, situated on the River Dee and on the edge of the Berwyn mountains.

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London-Brabant Massif

The London-Brabant Massif or London-Brabant Platform is in the tectonic structure of Europe a structural high or massif that stretches from the Rhineland in western Germany across northern Belgium (in the province of Brabant) and the North Sea to the sites of East Anglia and the middle Thames in southern England.

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Lothian

Lothian (Lowden; Lodainn) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills.

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Malham Cove

Malham Cove is a limestone formation north of the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England.

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Malham Tarn

Malham Tarn is a glacial lake near the village of Malham in the Yorkshire Dales, England.

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Marble Arch Caves

The Marble Arch Caves are a series of natural limestone caves located near the village of Florencecourt in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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Menai Strait

The Menai Strait (Afon Menai, the "River Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.

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Mendip Hills

The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England.

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Mercurialis perennis

Mercurialis perennis, commonly known as dog's mercury, is a poisonous woodland plant found in much of Europe as well as in Algeria, Iran, Turkey, and the Caucasus, but almost absent from Ireland, Orkney and Shetland.

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Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) is a county in south east Wales.

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Morecambe Bay

Morecambe Bay is a large estuary in northwest England, just to the south of the Lake District National Park.

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Mumbles

Mumbles (Mwmbwls.) is a headland sited on the western edge of Swansea Bay on the southern coast of Wales.

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Mynydd Llangatwg

Mynydd Llangatwg or Llangattock Mountain is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the county of Powys, south Wales.

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North Pennines

The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England.

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Northumberland

Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England.

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Oswestry

Oswestry (Croesoswallt) is a large market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire (or; Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales.

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Penderyn, Rhondda Cynon Taf

Penderyn is a rural village in Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

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Pentland Hills

The Pentland Hills are a range of hills to the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Permeability (earth sciences)

Permeability in fluid mechanics and the earth sciences (commonly symbolized as κ, or k) is a measure of the ability of a porous material (often, a rock or an unconsolidated material) to allow fluids to pass through it.

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Pontneddfechan

Pontneddfechan, spelled Pontneathvaughan (pronounced) in English ("bridge over the Little Neath" in Welsh) is the southernmost village in the county of Brecknockshire, Wales, within the Vale of Neath.

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Pontsticill

Pontsticill is a village within the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.

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Porthcawl

Porthcawl is a town and community on the south coast of Wales in the county borough of Bridgend, west of the capital city, Cardiff and southeast of Swansea.

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Portland cement

Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.

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Powys

Powys is a principal area, a county and one of the preserved counties of Wales.

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Puffin Island (Anglesey)

Puffin Island (Ynys Seiriol) (at or) is an uninhabited island off the eastern tip of Anglesey, Wales.

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Rhossili

Rhossili (Rhosili) is a small village and community on the southwestern tip of the Gower Peninsula in Swansea.

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River Dove, Central England

The River Dove is the principal river of the southwestern Peak District, in the Midlands of England and is around in length.

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River Manifold

The River Manifold is a river in Staffordshire, England.

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren, Sabrina) is a river in the United Kingdom.

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Ruthin

Ruthin (Rhuthun) is the county town of Denbighshire in north Wales.

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Saint Govan

Saint Govan (Gofan) (died 586) was a hermit who lived in a fissure on the side of coastal cliff near Bosherston, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Sinkhole

A sinkhole, also known as a cenote, sink, sink-hole, swallet, swallow hole, or doline (the different terms for sinkholes are often used interchangeably), is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.

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Solway Firth

The Solway Firth (Tràchd Romhra) is a firth that forms part of the border between England and Scotland, between Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) and Dumfries and Galloway.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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South Pennines

The South Pennines is a region of moorland and hill country in northern England lying towards the southern end of the Pennines.

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South Wales Coalfield

The South Wales Coalfield (Welsh: Maes glo De Cymru) is a large region of south Wales that is rich in coal deposits, especially the South Wales Valleys.

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Southern Uplands

The Southern Uplands are the southernmost and least populous of mainland Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Lowlands and the Highlands).

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Stackpole Estate

Stackpole Estate is located between the villages of Stackpole(Ystangbwll) and Bosherston near Pembroke, Pembrokeshire.

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Steep Holm

Steep Holm (Ynys Rhonech, Old English: Ronech and later Steopanreolice) is an English island lying in the Bristol Channel.

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Stirlingshire

Stirlingshire or the County of Stirling (Coontie o Stirlin, Siorrachd Sruighlea) is a historic county and registration countyRegisters of Scotland.

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Stump Cross Caverns

Stump Cross Caverns is a limestone cave system between Wharfedale and Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England.

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Swansea Bay

Swansea Bay (Bae Abertawe) is a bay on the southern coast of Wales.

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Swansea Valley

The Swansea Valley (Cwm Tawe), one of the South Wales Valleys, is the name often given to the valley of the River Tawe area in southern Wales, United Kingdom.

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Tenby

Tenby (Dinbych-y-pysgod, meaning fortlet of the fish) is a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the western side of Carmarthen Bay.

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The Burren

The Burren is a region of environmental interest primarily located in northwestern County Clare, Ireland, dominated by glaciated karst (or sometimes glaciokarst Burren National Park - Geology - "The Burren is one of the finest examples of a Glacio-Karst landscape in the world. At least two glacial advances are known in the Burren area.") landscape.

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The Midlands

The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.

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Titterstone Clee Hill

Titterstone Clee Hill, sometimes referred to as Titterstone Clee or, incorrectly, Clee Hill (which is the lower hill to the southeast), is a prominent hill in the rural English county of Shropshire, rising at the summit to above sea level.

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Trefil

Trefil is a small village in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, south Wales.

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Trypanites

Trypanites is a narrow, cylindrical, unbranched boring which is one of the most common trace fossils in hard substrates such as rocks, carbonate hardgrounds and shells (Bromley, 1972).

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Tunstead, Derbyshire

Tunstead is a village in Derbyshire, England, situated above Great Rocks Dale north of Buxton.

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Undy

Undy (Gwndy) is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, adjoining the village of Magor with which it forms the community and parish of "Magor with Undy".

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Vale of Eden

The Vale of Eden is formed by the course of the River Eden, one of the major rivers of Northwest England.

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Vale of Glamorgan

The Vale of Glamorgan, often referred to as The Vale, (Bro Morgannwg) is a county borough in Wales, bordering Bridgend, Cardiff, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

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Valley

A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Weardale

Weardale is a dale, or valley, of the east side of the Pennines in County Durham, England.

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Weathering

Weathering is the breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, water, and biological organisms.

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Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare is a seaside town in Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel south west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill.

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Whitbarrow

Whitbarrow is a hill in Cumbria, England.

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White Peak

The White Peak is the lower, southern part of the Peak District in England.

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White Scar Caves

White Scar Caves is a show cave in the civil parish of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England, under Ingleborough in the Chapel-le-Dale valley of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

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Wintour's Leap

Wintour's Leap is a noted rock climbing location and viewpoint.

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Wookey Hole

Wookey Hole is a village close to Wells in Somerset, England.

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Wye Valley

The Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB; Dyffryn Gwy) is an internationally important protected landscape straddling the border between England and Wales.

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Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in Northern England in the historic county of Yorkshire, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954.

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Ystradfellte

Ystradfellte is a small village in southern Powys, Wales, in the Fforest Fawr area of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous_Limestone

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