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Located south-west of Castalia on State Route 101: Castalia Quarry MetroPark, 152 acres (62 ha), formerly a limestone quarry, this once barren land is slowly returning to a natural state. Florence Township. Unincorporated community of Birmingham on State Route 113:
Holwell Reserves is a 16.4 hectares (41 acres) nature reserve north of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.It is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, and is composed of Brown's Hill Quarry, Holwell Mineral Line and North Quarry.
Castalia / k ə ˈ s t eɪ l i ə / (Ancient Greek: Κασταλία, romanized: Kastalia), in ancient Greek and Roman literature, [1] was the name of a spring near Delphi, sacred to the Muses; it is also known as the Castalian Spring.
Carnegie Quarry, also known as Dinosaur Quarry or Douglass Quarry, [1] is a fossil site in Utah that dates to the Jurassic Period. It is located in the Morrison Formation . It is part of Dinosaur National Monument , which was founded to protect the site.
In 1985, Boston's Metropolitan District Commission purchased 22 acres, including Granite Railway Quarry, as the Quincy Quarries Reservation. A solution to the public safety problem was finally found with the massive Big Dig highway project in Boston. Dirt from the new highway tunnels was trucked in to fill the main quarries.
Arising from the rubble of a medieval quarry, the Hills and Holes is one of Britain’s most important wildlife sites. Covering an area of just 50 acres (22 ha), the grassy slopes are home to a profusion of wild flowers. This type of meadowland is now all too rare; half of the surviving limestone grassland in Cambridgeshire is found here.
The reserve lies above the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy, to the west of the road starting at an elevation of about 10,000 feet (3,000 m) at It extends to just below the summit area of Mauna Kea Observatory , at about 13,000 feet (4,000 m) elevation at 19°49′9″N 155°28′28″W / 19.81917°N 155.47444°W / 19. ...
College Lake is a 65 hectare nature reserve in a former chalk quarry in Pitstone in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. It is one of the flagship reserves of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust , and it has an information centre, education facilities, a café, toilets and a shop. [ 1 ]