Photo 9 (Return)

Charton Bay, 2001. Successive rotational failures have occurred within the Upper Greensand and Chalk at the top of the 150m high cliff to produce an undercliff of landslide debris that extends to the shoreline. Activity rates have been fairly modest in recent decades, because marine erosion is not evident at this location due to the development of a wide gravel beach, retained by landslide debris that blocks the foreshore at Humble Point (to the right). The beach is formed of chert, flint and limestone gravels derived from local cliff erosion.