Chalk, Sand and Water

It is a glorious day in north Norfolk, clear skies and a chill breeze. We were out for a walk on the beach at West Runton. The landscape in this part of Norfolk is called terminal moraine by the geologists, because it marks the point where end point reached by glaciers during the last Ice Age. For us it means that the land has been carved and shaped into a ridge, and that the glacier has deposited a curious mix of clay, sand, flint and chalk that it carried with it. We get a fair few fossils here and a wooly mammoth was found in the cliffs here only a few years back.

Here is a large chunk of chalk that ended up on the beach.