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Posted: 17 Apr 2007

Taken: 22 Mar 2004

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1/80 • f/4.0 • 7.1 mm • ISO 64 •

OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C5050Z

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beach •
geo:lat=52.952775 •
Lower Greensand •
horizontal bedding •
Red Chalk •
Cretaceous •
Hunstanton •
Chalk •
Geology •
Cliff •
Coast •
Norfolk •
Landscape •
England •
bedding •
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geo:lon=0.496273 •

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Striped cliffs at Hunstanton, Norfolk.

Striped cliffs at Hunstanton, Norfolk.
This is probably the best exposure of the Red Chalk in the UK.
The top-to-bottom sequence is:

Cenomanian (White) Chalk
-- disconformity -- (~ 2 million year time gap)
Hunstanton Formation ('Red Chalk')
Carstone Formation ('Lower Greensand' - brown!)
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 slgwv
slgwv club
A classic layer cake exposure!
8 years ago.

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