| P number: | P210131 |
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| Old photograph number: | A10229 |
| Caption: | Deeply dissected Hastings Beds topography near Balcombe. Looking north-east, Sussex. |
| Description: | Between Balcombe and Ardingly several steep-sided valleys have been cut into the Hastings Beds. The Wadhurst Clay and Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand occupy the valley floors and sides (generally heavily wooded), the Grinstead Clay and Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand cap the ridges in between (usually arable land). One such valley is seen here. The London-Brighton railway runs along the steep wooded slope immediately below the housing estate. The skyline ridge is the major Wealden watershed separating streams which drain northwards into the Rivers Thames and Medway from those which drain southwards into the River Ouse (thence to the English Channel) and roughly corresponds to the main Wealden anticlinal axis. The Wealden Series, a suite of lacustrine (lake) and deltaic deposits formed during the Cretaceous is subdivided into six lithological divisions; the lower five comprise the Hastings Beds. They are the Ashdown Sand, Wadhurst Clay,Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand, Grinstead Clay and Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/1964 |
| Photographer: | Pulsford, J.M. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| X longitude/easting: | 530500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 129500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 318.92 KB; 1000 x 794 pixels; 85 x 67 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 210 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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