Tag: geology
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Levelling up? Uneven patterns of recent rainfall highlight characteristic river response and signpost future management strategy in the River Mole catchment.
Thunderstorms tracked across the Lower Mole basin in the early hours of 29 June 2023 but they largely missed the Upper Mole. The storms were much heavier over the Lower Mole to the north of the catchment over places like Molesey and Esher. In contrast the Upper Mole catchment to the south of Dorking received…
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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.…
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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…
The Mole Story 