Corrasion weathering
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Corrasion weathering
Image: © Hugh Venables Taken: 13 Aug 2011
A weaker upper layer of the chalk cliffs is being eroded at St Margaret's at Cliffe by the action of waves and pebbles of more resistant rock grinding against the chalk.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.1486
Longitude
1.383874