Sentences with phrase «chalk white cliffs»

Beachy Head's brilliantly bright chalk white cliffs are enchantingly tall with the highest chalk sea cliff in Britian at 531 ′ (162m) above sea level.

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Europe's West Coast Odyssey The dramatic coastline between Lisbon and Portsmouth challenges the imagination with terraced hillsides, soaring chalk - white cliffs, sweeping white sand beaches, and the tower turrets of Mont St. Michel.

The beach was composed of whited powdery sand, wrapped in white cliffs with fat, chalk - colored stalactites dripping from the ceiling of the sea caves.

Made at an enclosed beach set below white chalk cliffs, near Eastbourne, Warboys created the painting by casting and rubbing pigment onto swathes of raw canvas that are submerged and pulled from the sea.

There have been some rather outlandish proposals such as taking the white cliffs of Dover and crumbling the chalk there — adding very large quantities of chalk to seawater to neutralise the acid, but really, they are not feasible to any practical degree, so I think we really need to look at stopping emitting CO2.

Although CO2 levels during the Cretaceous were much higher than today, that was the time that coccolithophores were building enormous layers of chalk, like the white cliffs of Dover.