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Nearby Attraction Berkhamsted Castle ( HP4 1LJ) is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in central Berkhamsted. On the bench below the top level a marl seam was pointed out to us, the Caburn Marl, only 4 cm thick. The two sites are linked by an embanked roadway, built in 1962 to allow lorries to transport chalk direct from the quarry to the kilns. You may wish to take a quick detour over a stile and along the path to your right which gives you a view of Wheatham Farm and closer to the line of poplars that rustle endlessly in the wind. One week in early October, four members of the BGS set up camp in a self-catering cottage near the town of Tring in the Chiltern Hills, about halfway between London and Oxford.
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The Chiltern Hills run for 46 miles in a south-west to north-east diagonal from Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire to Hitchin in Hertfordshire. There is a good variety of butterflies in the area including brimstone, orange tip, holly blue, dingy skipper, green hairstreak, wall brown, green-veined white, speckled wood, comma, small tortoiseshell, common blue, marbled white and chalk hill blue. Quite a lot of its work is now done outside Britain: at the time of writing, projects include studies of groundwater in the Philippines and volcanic activity in the Afar region of Ethiopia.An oblique reference to whether something happened spurs the imagination of the reader more effectively than the detail of the event would, however intriguing. Blasting took place two or three times per week, often on Sunday mornings [11] and provoked regular complaints from the residents of Cocking village, particularly regarding cracked ceilings and broken windows. Similar features can be seen in rough meadows on the upper reaches of several other chalk streams, notably the Gade and Ver valleys. By the end of the 1950s, the north battery had been demolished and only the eastern end wall now remains. Our starting point at the top of the Pit found us on the Main Chalk Rock and we saw ample evidence of the intensive burrowing which had also been described to us.
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Location From the parking area you can walk down the lane to Bottom Farm on the floor of the Hertfordshire Bourne valley.
We spend a huge amount of time on desk studies trying to work out where everything is or where it might be. Between 1926 and 1938, the company excavated approximately 3,200 tons of chalk annually from the chalk pit, all of which was used for brick production.
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The Chalk was deposited on the Midlands Micro-Craton and the channel cut down into the contact with the adjacent country rock during the mid-Cenomanian (96 – 97 Ma) when sea levels were very low. As the chalk pits became deeper, workmen would be suspended with ropes from the top of the cliff, breaking the chalk by hand. Each formation represents a different world, and each of these worlds existed for far, far longer than humans have been on the planet. A poet uses this kind of figurative language to say that one thing is similar to another, not like metaphor, that it “is” another. The third chalk pit on this stretch of hangers is at the bottom of Wheatham Hill, off Cottage Lane, opposite Wheatham Farm.The sequence contains various fossiliferous beds, one of which (the Entolium Bed) has yielded the type specimen of Turritella dibleyi and contains 25 other species known from no other locality. Hit a fracture or a seam of clay, and your tunnel – filled with men and machines – might flood with water. Ruth and Nelson must unravel the dark secrets of The Underground and discover just what gruesome secrets lurk at its heart – before it claims another victim. As Ruth, Nelson, and the rest of their team investigate the tunnels, they hear rumors of secret societies, cannibalism, and ritual killings. Below it you join another track which leads up the top of Shoulder of Mutton Hill, going past a huge fallen beech on your right.