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February 17, 2021 at 6:24 am
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They are amazing crags, aren’t they? Close up they are sandstone and, from memory, very limey – the grains are cemented together by calcium carbonate.
They date back to around 7 or 8 million years ago when there was a series of lakes here, north of the mountains. Some lakes were freshwater, some linked to the Mediterranean.