Sentences with phrase «high chalk cliffs»

If you want proof that the south coast of England was once connected to the northern coast of France, it's here by the millions of tons — 100ft - high chalk cliffs, miles of them, that match those at Dover.

Not exact matches

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.

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.