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| Wales
is a mountainous country on the Western shores of Britain. Its
scenery is distinctive, offering everything from the rugged
peaks of Snowdonia in the northeast to the rolling pastures
of the cenral uplands, the southern valleys and the coastal
plains. Its 732-mile coastline is very varied with bays, beaches,
peninsulars and cliffs. |
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| Beneath
the surface of Wales lie the rocks that gave this fascinating
country both its shape and its industrial might. Indeed there
are few comparable areas in the world that have such a rich
geological heritage. For 700 million years rocks have been laid
down, bent and twisted, eroded, and injected with volcanic lava
and mineral-saturated waters. Soft rocks have been hardened
to slate and tropical swamps turned into coal. |
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rich geological and industrial legacy of Wales has given us
a huge open-air museum waiting to be explored. This trail of
the top 12 underground sites in Wales takes you on a journey
into the very heart of our geological and industrial past. If
you want to learn more about rocks and minerals, to see how
miners won them from the depths, or simply explore underground,
this is the trail for you. |
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