Tag: landscape formation
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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. 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.
