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The main feature of Table Mountain is the level plateau approximately from side to side, edged by impressive cliffs.
The main climbs are located on cliffs below the upper cable station.
The main section of town, centered around the courthouse, is situated along the south bank of the Pigeon amongst a series of relatively low but steep cliffs.
A main attraction is Lake Corpus Christi State Park whose surround a cove, protected from the prevailing south-easterly winds by high limestone cliffs, and providing a scenic view of the main body of the lake.
Møn, with its magnificent chalk cliffs, Liselund Park and its sandy beaches is one of the main destinations.
Other places on the cliffs to the south have smaller groups of petroglyphs, though the main attraction for most people along upper Indian Creek Canyon is rock climbing, since the Wingate cliffs here provide many advanced, technical routes, easily accessed from the road.
Evidence has been found of shellfish middens and huts along Albert Park and Lake and axes which were most likely sharpened on the sandstone cliffs behind the main beach.
Coccoliths are composed of calcium carbonate as the mineral calcite and are the main constituent of chalk deposits such as the white cliffs of Dover ( deposited in Cretaceous times ).
The cliffs on the eastern side of this headland show the only preserved exposures of Moine metasediments west of the main outcrop of the Moine Thrust in Scotland ( as a result of thrusting and later normal-faulting ) and excellent machair examples have developed between the cliff top and the dunes, partly due to the high sea-shell content of the sands in the Durness area.
The main attractions in Durness are Smoo Cave, a conjoined sea cave and freshwater cave with a small river running through it and a waterfall in wet weather, unspoilt beaches backed by cliffs, and the local sea birds, seals, porpoises and minke whales.
The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco.
The main problem associated with the dry and crumbly nature of the limestone and alabaster rocks, that make up the cliffs that border Penarth, is the continuing and relentless erosion by the sea.
For climbers and mountaineers the main attraction lies in the high cliffs of the north face ; among the highest cliffs in the United Kingdom, they harbour some classic scrambles and rock climbs of all difficulties, and are one of the principal locations in the UK for ice climbing.
A massive work effort is taking place on the main road, it is being widened and is being brought further away from the cliffs, the road is also cutting out dangerous turns and other threats to drivers.
The Andador Escéncico ( Scenic Walkway ) is a set of paths, stairs and bridges that begin at the main beach of the town and winds its way over rocky oceanside cliffs, passing below the lighthouse to a lookout the named Sueño Posible ( Possible Dream ).
The Queensland Navy's main stores below the Kangaroo Point cliffs, with the gunship Paluma moored in the Brisbane River in the 1890s.
The island's appearance is of an upturned bowl with surrounding steep cliffs and a broad opening to the sea on the northern side which is the main entry point by boat.
It takes its name from its vague resemblance to a mummy, or perhaps more accurately an Egyptian sarcophagus seen in profile, with the " head " to the north formed by outcropping above Lee Canyon, the gently rounded main summit forming the " body ", and a southern rise and cliffs forming the " feet ".
The main metaphorical treatment is of a geographical landscape, upon which evolution can only ascend in a gradual way, not being able to climb cliffs ( this is known as an adaptive landscape ).
The cliffs are divided into several main sectors.
Occasionally the land rises reasonably abruptly from the sea to a domed plateau, and there are a few rocky coastal cliffs ; however, in the main the coastlines are relatively flat, interspersed by both rocky and sand beaches and some low-lying lagoons and estuaries on the larger islands.

cliffs and plateau
North of Isna ( 160 km north of Aswan ), the plateau on both sides of the valley rises to as much as 550 m above sea level ; at Qina ( some 90 km north of Isna ) the 300-m limestone cliffs force the Nile to change course towards the southwest for about 60 km before it turns northwest for about 160 km to Asyut.
: Volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs ; relatively flat coralline limestone plateau ( source of most freshwater ), with steep coastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low-rising hills in center, mountains in south
The terrain consists of steep coastal cliffs made from limestone and a central plateau.
It occupied the whole plateau or summit of the hill, and the remains of the ancient walls may be traced, at intervals, all round the brow of the cliffs, except in one part, facing the sea, where the cliff is now quite precipitous.
Fairhope is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, on a sloping plateau, along the cliffs and shoreline of Mobile Bay.
Located on the precipitous escarpment on the east of the undulating Northern Tablelands plateau, the wilderness consists of impressive cliffs, rugged ridges, spurs and streams.
Roughly, landscapes in the park vary from coastal cliffs broken by beaches and small inlets to an ancient high plateau broken by extensive and deep river valleys.
Most of Kakadu was under a shallow sea approximately 140 million years ago, with the escarpment wall formed from sea cliffs and Arnhem Land from a flat plateau above the sea.
The watertable in this locality is drained by the Little Antietam Creek and its tributaries, and many of these caves can be found in the cliffs and along the broken plateau east of town.
To the east, the coastline rises into cliffs, where the Kras plateau meets the Adriatic, all the way to Trieste and Muggia on the border with Slovenia.
Mona is a mainly flat plateau surrounded by sea cliffs.
Pilots must exercise great caution whenever southerly winds exceed 15 knots ( some say as little as 8 knots ), and be aware of rotors, strong turbulence and down-drafts associated with the plateau cliffs during the approach.
Western half is a mountainous plateau, and the southwest coast consists mostly of steep cliffs.
The mountain is a flat-topped plateau with a sandstone cap rimmed by precipitous rock cliffs.
Located just beyond the Serra do Mar cliffs, above the port city of Santos, and close to the Tietê River, the new settlement became the natural entrance from the South East coast to the vast and fertile high plateau to the West that would eventually become the richest Brazilian state.
Perranporth Airfield, originally built during World War II as an RAF fighter station, is now a civil airfield located on the plateau above the cliffs.
Filfla has an area of just and is a crumbling flat-topped limestone plateau surrounded by 60 metre high cliffs.
Located just beyond the Serra do Mar cliffs, above the port city of Santos, and close to the Tietê River, the new settlement became the natural entrance from the South East coast to the vast and fertile high plateau to the West that would eventually become the richest Brazilian state.
It is capped by a westward sloping plateau of relatively hard sandstone ringed on the remaining 3 sides by cliffs.
Large boulders are evidence of previous rockfalls from the sandstone plateau, which forms the escarpment cliffs and Mount Keira summit.
Most of the island consists of a limestone plateau, bordered by steep cliffs along the shore.
The plateau, with elevation up to 9, 000 feet ( 2, 700 m ) is bordered on the south by the Grand Canyon, on the east and the west by tributary canyons of the Colorado River, and on the North by tiers of uplifted cliffs.
It is a chalk plateau to the north of the Seine Estuary and extending to the cliffs on the English Channel coast-its coastline is known as the Côte d ' Albâtre.

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