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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

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Because they are made of white chalk and are visible as you enter Dover harbour.

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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.

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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.

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