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Calanque

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A calanque is a narrow, steep-walled inlet developed in limestone, dolomite or other carbonate strata, found along the Mediterranean coast. It forms as a steep-sided valley within karstic regions, cut either by fluvial erosion or by the collapse of a cave roof, later partly submerged by a rise in sea level.

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