Category: Reigate

• 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

• 2013 Flooding on the River Mole: causes, impacts and management

  

  The River Mole is a modest lowland river in SE England that rises near Rusper in the wooded hilly heartland of the Surrey / Sussex Weald, near Crawley and Horsham. The Mole and its tributaries flow broadly north, through Crawley, around and under Gatwick airport, before meandering through mostly rural countryside to Dorking. The Mole…

  sirgeogy

  January 4, 2014

  flood, Flood defence, Floods, Gatwick airport, hazards, Reigate, River Mole

  flood hazards, flood risk assessment, Gatwick airport, geography, hazard impacts, hazard responses, risk, River Mole, River Mole drainage basin, River Thames