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    Why are the cliffs of Dover white?

    Question #21887. Asked by Don. (Aug 27 02 2:01 AM)


    Richzooie

    		The cliffs are chalk ... therefore giving them their white appearance.

    see this link
    http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/resource/articles/cliffs.htm

    Aug 27 02, 4:59 AM
    Brainy Blonde

    		Around seventy million years ago, this part of Britain was submerged by a shallow
    sea. The sea bottom was made of a white mud formed from the fragments of coccoliths
    the skeletons of tiny algae that floated in the surface waters of the sea. This mud
    was later to become the chalk. See:
    http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/resource/articles/cliffs.htm

    I just watched a documentary about this the other day!


    Aug 27 02, 5:19 AM

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