Chalk Cliffs
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Chalk Cliffs by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
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Chalk Cliffs
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 29 Jun 2014
The chalk here isn't in nice tidy strata. It's been modified by movements of the unstable ground, and possibly also by frost during the last Ice Age. The vegetation covers a talus slope of chalk fragments that have fallen off the cliff.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.595609
Longitude
-1.194204