GEOGRAPHY
by Ron Dutton
In its relatively small area of 47.5 square miles, the WSBA from Akrotiri Peninsula to Avdhimou Beach contains a wide variety of bio-geophysical settings. These include salt marshes, sea-cliffs, beaches, dunes, coastal lowlands and rugged plateaux covered with garrigue and maquis vegetation.
Although of differing ages and origins, the geological underlays all are part of a sedimentary apron of rocks now surrounding the igneous complex of Troodos, the upthrust mountain core of the Island.
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