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Carboniferous limestone is the most widespread type of rock on the island of Ireland. They form some of the more dramatic landscapes in our country. The Burren of County Clare was once also such an extensive coral reef and equally consists of numerous fossils. It is the chemistry and properties of the limestone rocks that give the Burren such impressive and eerie landscape features. This is also responsible for enormous cave systems such as Mitchelstown Caves
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1. The area of Cork City would perhaps have been a lovely holiday destination. 2. Shows nautiloids, a kind of mollusc, floating around in the tropical waters. 3. Crinoids, whose fossils exist in abundance in Ireland’s Carboniferous limestones.
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