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Mullaghmore, Kilnaboy, County Clare, Ireland
This curious looking mountain is made from solid limestone & stands 180 meters high. It’s hard to imagine but this was all at the bottom of a warm tropical sea 350 million of years ago! This grey limestone mountain was created by millions of years of sediments & organic material sinking from the ocean’s surface then solidifying into rock limestone over the ages.
Due to tectonic plate movement in our earth’s crust, this ancient seabed was pushed upwards into the sky! Nature slowly eroded away & smoothed this ancient seabed into these beautifully curved layers of rock, which today is known as The Burren National Park.
She may be the slowest working artist known… but Nature is the grand sculptorer of our planet