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1
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What is the Weald-Artois anticline and how did it form?

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  • 30m years ago large earth movements caused compacted sediment layers to rise creating a dome and an arch (anticline)
2
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How did the south and north downs escarpments form?

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Erosion of the chalk has left alternate strata of more and less resistant rock.
Forming a landscape known as scarp and vale topography

3
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Name a lowland landscape and its location.

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The Weald

South England, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey

4
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Define dip slope.

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Gentle slope following the angle of the strata, behind an escarpment.

5
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Define scarp slope.

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Slope in the land that cuts across the underlying strata

6
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Define strata

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A layer of series of rock

7
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Define escarpment.

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Steep slope or long cliff that forms due to erosion and separates two areas of differing elevation.