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Seven Sisters, England

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The Seven Sisters are a line of white chalk sea cliffs along the English Channel coast of East Sussex, England, part of the same Cretaceous Chalk Group as the White Cliffs of Dover, deposited from calcareous marine sediment roughly 100 to 66 million years ago and later uplifted above sea level. Their name comes from the undulating series of rounded peaks and troughs visible along the cliff line, which correspond to the mouths of dry valleys that once ran across the chalk downland; as the coastline has retreated under wave erosion, each valley has been truncated, leaving the high point between two neighboring valleys standing as one of the "sisters." The cliffs continue to retreat by roughly a third of a meter per year on average through ongoing coastal erosion.

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1. Wikipedia: Seven Sisters, East Sussex, Wikipedia
  • Introduction
    Some of the cliffs and adjacent countryside make up the Seven Sisters Country Park, which is bounded on its inland side by the A259 road, and is itself a part of the larger South Downs National Park.
  • Associated With: Chalk, Lead paragraph
    The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs range of hills, in the county of East Sussex, in south-east England.
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