reef knoll is a landform that comprises an immense pile of calcareous material that had previously accumulated on an ancient sea floor. Reef knolls are...
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Thorpe Cloud is an isolated limestone hill (a reef knoll) lying between the villages of Thorpe and Ilam on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border at the southern...
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Thunder Knoll 16°27′N 80°20′W / 16.450°N 80.333°W / 16.450; -80.333 is a reef knoll about 18 km in extent and composed of coral sand. It lies approximately...
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Atoll (redirect from Atoll reef)
319 km2, 123 sq mi total lagoon size). The geological formation known as a reef knoll refers to the elevated remains of an ancient atoll within a limestone...
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Chrome Hill /ˈkruːm/ is a limestone reef knoll in Derbyshire, England, in the upper Dove valley beside the border with Staffordshire, within the civil...
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stands Thorpe Cloud, 942 ft (287 m), an isolated limestone hill known as a reef knoll. It provides a viewpoint north up the dale and south across the Midlands...
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surrounded by reef knolls, especially Elbolton Hill to the west, and Kail Hill to the east. All of these form part of the Cracoe Reef Knolls SSSI. This seclusion...
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Staffordshire. Geologically, the hill is the remains of an atoll (a 'reef knoll') which is believed to have existed during the Carboniferous period when...
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Elbolton Cave excavations, the Craven Herbarium and Richard Tiddeman's reef knoll collection. It was opened by Sir Henry Alexander Miers, president of the...
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The plateau was once on the shoreline, supported by the presence of reef knolls inside its limestone outcroppings. Over time, heavy erosion, tectonic...
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