About 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 (skeletons if tiny algae), then the mud became chalk
Because they are made of white chalk and are visible as you enter Dover harbour.
Formed by coccolithophores: single-celled planktonic algae whose skeletal remains sank to the bottom of the ocean and, together with the remains of bottom-living creatures, formed sediments.
The sea crashes into the cliffs and over time wears them down. this is called erosion. The sea battered away at the cliff until it revealed the clalk cliffs.
The White Cliffs of Dover.
The white cliffs of Dover are so named because they are made of chalk.
The Cliffs of Dover have appeared in hundreds of films.
Check out the White Cliffs of Dover.
The chalk cliffs at Dover.
The White Cliffs of Dover are cliffs forming part of the English coastline. The cliffs reach up to 300 feet in height and stretch for 10 miles to the east and west of Dover.
The White cliffs of Dover reach up to approx. 350 ft or 108 meters.
The White Cliffs of Dover face reaches up to 350 feet (110 m).
They are famous for being white cliffs.
No, they are chalk cliffs and naturally white.
The White Cliffs of Dover are located in Southeast England, along the coastline facing France and the Strait of Dover. They're white because of the chalk in the sediments that formed them.
- There'll Be Bluebirds Over - The White Cliffs of Dover was created in 1941.