An academic paper by Richard Aquino of the University of Canterbury describes the Chocolate Hills as “conical marine limestone hills.” The book, “Geoheritage of East and South East Asia ...

READ: DENR chief: Illegal structures in Chocolate Hills must be removed “Consultative process ... are composed of 1,776 limestone mounds surrounding the island’s interior plains.

What it is: The Chocolate Hills are thought to have been formed as uplifted marine limestone was cracked by tectonic movements and then weathered away by water and wind. More than 1,300 individual ...

More than 15 years ago, parts of Chocolate Hills among the 1,776 were destroyed or “chipped off” by the locals for limestone to be used for road ... this issue quickly after an investigation: remove ...

“Unscrupulous people strikes again @ the famous Chocolate Hills. Just about a kilometer away from the resort’s viewpoint are piles of limestone quarried from a chocolate hill,” according to ...

Near the middle of the central island province, the Chocolate Hills are more than 1,700 conical limestone peaks that stretch as far as the eye can see, the grass-covered karst mounds turning ...

CARMEN, BOHOL — Illegal structures in the Chocolate Hills must be removed as these would impact the status of Bohol as the first global geopark declared by the United Nations in the country ...

Binay wanted the DENR, Penro, the concerned local government units and other agencies to explain why such a construction was allowed despite the status of the Chocolate Hills as a protected landscape.

(via SciShow) The Chocolate Hills of Bohol, Philippines are so perfectly shaped that local legends say they were crafted by giants. Geologists can't agree exactly what happened, but the answer might ...

the Chocolate Hills are a rare geological occurrence that is the result of leftover limestone deposits from a time when streams and rivers were above sea level and running water carved out these ...