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The map is possibly the first recorded use of the term English Channel and the description suggests the name had recently been adopted. [ 9 ] In the sixteenth century, Dutch maps referred to the sea as the Engelse Kanaal (English Channel) and by the 1590s, William Shakespeare used the word Channel in his history plays of Henry VI , suggesting ...
Geologic map of southeast England and the region around the English Channel, showing the Weald-Artois anticline in its regional context. Cross-section over the Wealden anticline The Weald–Artois Anticline , or Wealden Anticline , is a large anticline , a geological structure running between the regions of the Weald in southern England and ...
Though pitted by troughs and rivers, the English Channel was almost mainly land at the height of the last ice age. [6] The predominant geology of both and of the seafloor is chalk. Although somewhat resistant to erosion, erosion of both coasts has created the famous white cliffs of Dover in the UK and the Cap Blanc Nez in France.
A map showing the hypothetical extent of Doggerland from now back to the Weichselian glaciation. Until the middle Pleistocene, Great Britain was a peninsula of Europe, connected by the massive chalk Weald–Artois Anticline across the Strait of Dover.
The sediments were uplifted and faulted within the Variscan Orogeny, with the land now occupied by the Weald Basin being a low external fold belt to the main orogeny, which was located within the present day English Channel. [2] The remnants of the mountain belt can be seen today in Devon and Cornwall in what is known as the Cornubian Massif.
Map showing hypothetical extent of Doggerland from Weichselian glaciation until the current situation. Paleogeographers studying the Quaternary period have suggested that 600,000 years ago, although the Channel and the North Sea were flooded, the Weald-Artois ridge remained as a land bridge between Britain and Continental Europe, [1] allowing people, plants and animals to cross. [2]
Geology of Europe (27 C, 32 P) Grasslands of Europe ... English Channel; Epirus; ... Map of the Duke of Noja;
The geology of Europe is varied and complex, and gives rise to the wide variety of landscapes found across the continent, from the Scottish Highlands to the rolling plains of Hungary. Europe's most significant feature is the dichotomy between highland and mountainous Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from ...