The present work is a model of what a county geology should be. The zones in the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks, the phosphatic nodules in Lower Green-sand and Chalk, the glacial deposits ...

Prof. Soil as, in his estimation of the age of the earth, takes one foot in 100 years as the average rate of rock formation. But chalk is generally held to be a rock of much slower formation than ...

Humans abstract (remove) water from rivers to use in our homes, farms and industries. In areas of the UK with a chalk geology we often extract water from the ground (i.e. groundwater) for domestic ...

The headland is made out of chalk, a hard rock. The headland juts out into the sea, so it is more vulnerable to high-energy waves. This caused the formation of Old Harry, a stack. Over time Old ...

I looked up chalk on Wikipedia, for the simple reason that Sussex is a county of chalk downs. (Plus, I suppose, I felt shamed by my lack of geological knowledge.) ...