Pootler

Our regional landscape has its origins in mud on the seabed, so at this point in our trudge through the stygian gloom of geological history, let us take a closer look at that  gloopy, crumbly  mud and the various types of stone that it morphed into.  Apologia. The passively interested reader might find this post sultifyingly tedious . Even the  graphics are awe-inspiringly uninspiring.  It is here  for the sake of completeness and  because, worryingly, I think that mud has a story to tell.  On its travels around the planet, detailed in the previous posts, South East England often found itself either under or above water, or in a liminal zone between the two. What we see today is based on the compacted sediments of sand, gravel and biological detritus that slowly accumulated on the old sea floors. Under their own weight and the water above them, they turned into stone.  The different types of stone are the result of different mixtures of mater...