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The products of chalk weathering are dissolved in rainwater and are transported in stream flow. Chalk streams transport little suspended material (unlike most rivers), but are considered "mineral-rich" due to the dissolved calcium and carbonate ions. The surface water of chalk streams is commonly described as "gin clear".
The River Chess is a chalk stream that rises near Chesham in the Chiltern Hills, and flows for 11 miles (18 km) through Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to its confluence with the River Colne in Rickmansworth. The Chess, along with the Colne and Gade, gives rise to the name of the district of Three Rivers.
The Gypsey Race rises in the Great Wold Valley [4] through a series of springs and flows intermittently between Duggleby and West Lutton where it runs underground in the chalk aquifer before re-surfacing in Rudston. It has been known during very wet conditions for the stream to re-appear at Wold Newton [5] some 4.3 miles (7 km) north-west of ...
About 85% of the world’s chalk streams are found in England, of which more than three quarters are not in good health, according to a report by the Worldwide Fund For Nature. Follow Norfolk news ...
The River Dour is a chalk stream in the county of Kent, England. It flows from the villages of Temple Ewell and River between which is a neighbourhood served by a railway station, Kearsney. It is roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) long. It originally had a wide estuary on the site of modern Dover, although today it flows into the Dover Harbour through a ...
The River Purwell is a chalk stream in Hertfordshire, England. The entire course of the stream is near Hitchin. Its source is springs which rise out of the chalk bedrock at St Ippolyts, forming Ippollitts Brook. [1] It is known as the Purwell by the time it reaches Ninesprings on the border of the parishes of Great Wymondley and Hitchin.
The River Pang in Bradfield The River Pang near Bradfield College, and just upstream of the previous picture A family of mute swans on the River Pang. The River Pang is a small chalk stream river in the west of the English county of Berkshire, and a tributary of the River Thames.
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