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Chalk and landscape of the South Downs, England
Author(s) -
Nowell David
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.2007.00623.x
Subject(s) - escarpment , geology , cretaceous , anticline , paleontology , archaeology , geography , structural basin
The Upper Cretaceous Chalk hills of the South Downs form the southern flank of the Wealden anticline in south‐east England, with older Wealden and Purbeck sediments exposed at its core. With prominent chalk escarpments on each side of it, this major structure is up to 70 km wide, and extends eastwards for over 200 km from eastern Hampshire to the area around Boulogne‐sur‐Mer in Northern France, dissected by the English Channel.