#Latest news with #Édouard-AlfredMartelBelfast Telegraph4 days agoScienceBelfast TelegraphHow a French explorer laid the bedrock of popular NI tourist attraction 130 years ago: ‘It's the mystery and magic of it'It's been 130 years since a French explorer came to Fermanagh at the behest of the then Earl of Enniskillen, William Willoughby Cole, who himself was a keen amateur geologist and fossil collector. The invitation to Édouard-Alfred Martel was to investigate the Marble Arch Caves — a system of natural limestone caves formed more than 330–340 million years ago and located near Florencecourt.
Belfast Telegraph4 days agoScienceBelfast TelegraphHow a French explorer laid the bedrock of popular NI tourist attraction 130 years ago: ‘It's the mystery and magic of it'It's been 130 years since a French explorer came to Fermanagh at the behest of the then Earl of Enniskillen, William Willoughby Cole, who himself was a keen amateur geologist and fossil collector. The invitation to Édouard-Alfred Martel was to investigate the Marble Arch Caves — a system of natural limestone caves formed more than 330–340 million years ago and located near Florencecourt.
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