Category: geology

• Making Mole Hills out of Mountains: Part 3

  

  This is Part 3 of the epic story of the formation of the River Mole catchment and the Weald. It’s a challenge piecing together the key events of the Tertiary relating to the Mole landscape. This post has become a discussion weighing up different theories and following threads of evidence from various articles and references.…

  sirgeogy

  March 8, 2023

  Analysis, geology, landscape, River Mole

  anticline, geology, landscape formation, Tertiary Period

• Making Mole Hills out of Mountains. Part 2: The Mesozoic Trough

  

  Part 2 of the formation of the River Mole landscape: this post covers the 200 million years of the Mesozoic era in which the rocks comprising the surface of the Weald were laid down.

  sirgeogy

  February 21, 2023

  Analysis, geology, landscape, Reigate, River Mole

  landscape formation, River Mole

• Making Mole hills out of Mountains: the formation of the Mole and the Weald

  

  Part 1: The Palaeozoic Floor This is the epic story of how the landscape of the River Mole catchment has been formed. Geographically we are dealing with the Downs, the Weald, the Mole Gap and the London Basin to the confluence with the River Thames. It is an immense topic spanning 400 million years of…

  sirgeogy

  January 31, 2023

  Analysis, geology, Upper Mole

  formation of the weald, geology, iceage, Mesozoic, Palaeozoic, Pleistocene