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Landscape along the Royal Saxon Way

Introduction

Sandgate to Risborough Barracks

The ancient landslip

St. Martins Plain to Etchinghill

A large unmapped quarry with Folkestone Stone

Springs

Tolsford Hill

The Elham Valley

The name of the Elham Valley stream

The 400ft terrace

Spring sapping and stream capture

An example of stream capture?

Bridge to Minster-in-Thanet

The disappearance of the Wantsum Channel

Rock types encountered along the RSW

Building stones in RSW churches

Chalk Downland Landscape

Some ideas on origins of Chalk Downland Landscape

1.0 Introduction

2.0 The role of tectonic uplift

3.0 The role of the Ice Age climate

4.0 Examples of landscape features resulting from the Ice Age climate

A history of Ideas on the origins of Chalk Downland Landscape

An odd couple of valleys

How were flints in chalk formed?

A Snowshoe Clam fossil (Cladoceramus undulatoplicatus)

Ores and Minerals in and around the Kent Downs Geopark

Iron ore and iron workings

Smelting

Sources of iron for smelting

Sources of Ironstone as a building material

Sources of other construction materials in East Kent

Sand

Clay

Gravel

Flints

Coal in East Kent

Time matters

Dealing with geological time

Determining a timetable of Glaciations

Miscellaneous musings

Perched water tables on relict permafrost – did they exist?