Pine trees, Chase Wood
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Pine trees, Chase Wood
Image: © Vieve Forward Taken: 19 Jan 2015
The bracken at the foot of these pine trees indicates soil acidity due to the presence of residual clay-with-flints, which capped most of the chalk downs hereabouts since the Ice Ages, but has steadily eroded away. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=CWF
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Image Location
Latitude
51.473914
Longitude
-1.690395