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Dún Briste (English: Dun Briste Sea Stack) is a natural sea stack or pilaster - in geomorphology called stack - that was formed in Ireland during the Carboniferous period, possibly Mississippian, approximately 350 million years ago.
Convection causes it to rise, causing a valley breeze. At night, the process is reversed. During the night the slopes get cooled and the dense air descends into the valley as the mountain wind. [4] These breezes occur mostly during calm and clear weather. Mountain and valley breezes are other examples of local winds caused by an area's geography.
The Black Valley or Cummeenduff (from Irish Com Uí Dhuibh, meaning 'Black Glen') [1] [2] is a remote valley at the southern end of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountain range in County Kerry, Ireland, situated south of the Gap of Dunloe and north of Moll's Gap; it is used as a southerly access into the Gap of Dunloe.
The Gap of Dunloe (from Irish Dún Lóich, meaning 'Lóich's stronghold'), also recorded as Bearna an Choimín (meaning "gap of the commonage" or "gap of the little hollow"), [3] is a narrow mountain pass running north–south in County Kerry, Ireland, that separates the MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountain range in the west, from the Purple Mountain Group range in the east.
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The lake spans the towns of Salisbury and Leicester and has a surface area of 985 acres (3.98 km 2). [1] Lake Dunmore is over 3 miles long (oriented north-south) and up to 1 mile wide. The primary source of water is Sucker Brook, which rises in the adjacent Moosalamoo National Recreation Area of the Green Mountain National Forest .
In 1993, the Westchester-Putnam Council, a precursor to the Greater Hudson Valley Council, received a $2.1 million dollar grant from the Open Space Institute that prevented the property from being sold to private developers and turned into a golf course. [4] In 2007, the council renamed Clear Lake to the Agatha A. Durland Scout Reservation.
When the Miami River was dammed in 1860 to support canal traffic, Indian Lake became far larger than its natural boundaries. [6] Farmland became lake bottom and small hills became islands; [4] the mound suddenly lay near the shoreline, [2] and a small bay of the lake immediately south of the mound was later named Dunns Pond. Consequently, if ...