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The geology of the South Downs National Park in South East England comprises a gently folded succession of sedimentary rocks from the Cretaceous and early Palaeogene periods overlain in places by a range of superficial deposits from the last 2.6 million years. Whereas the South Downs are formed from the Late Cretaceous age chalk, the South ...
Geology. Geology is the study of the structure and the origin of the planet earth through understanding the formation of its rocks, minerals, fossils and soils. Through studying the fossil record we can also learn and understand more about ancient life. Some geological formations or sites may be the only place this series of events, or fossil ...
Geology of the South Downs. Imagine the South East as a shallow tropical sea – between 75 and 90 million years ago that is exactly what covered this part of the UK. The distinctive chalk ridge of the South Downs often described as the spine of the South Downs National Park was formed at this time after layer after layer of marine deposits ...
North Downs, and South Downs, parallel ranges of chalk hills, SE England. They rise to 965 ft (294 m) at Leith Hill, Surrey. The North Downs range, extending c.100 mi (160 km) from near Farnham, Surrey, to White Cliffs of Dover, Kent, is cut by the Wey, Mole, Darent, Medway, and Stour rivers. The South Downs (c.65 mi/100 km long) extend from ...
With an estimated population of 580 million and an area of 24,709,000 km 2 (9,540,000 mi 2 ), the northernmost of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere [1] is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west; the Atlantic Ocean on the east; the Caribbean Sea on the south; and the Arctic Ocean on the north. The northern half of North America is ...
The South Downs are a long chalk escarpment that stretches for over 110 km (68 mi), rising from the valley of the River Itchen near Winchester, Hampshire, in the west to Beachy Head near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east. [10] Behind the steep north-facing scarp slope, the gently inclined dip slope of undulating chalk downland extends for a ...
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