Case studies - Geology

• Anticline - Compacted layers of sediment pushed up by plates to form large chalk domes of folded rock
• dip slope - steep slopes between two hills which were once an anticline, which take you down the gap of the two hills
• The Weald, in Kent in the South of England has compacted marine deposits which were forced upwards due to plates, causing the anticline
• Now in the Weald, due to softer rock in the middle of the anticline, a gap was formed from erosion, which formed two dip slopes down into the gap
• In the Weald, erosion was mainly of soft clay, which caused there to be a lower and flatter vale
• Vale - gentle and rolling land formed by softer rock
• Hevellyn is one of England's highest mountains, 949 metres above sea levels. It is made up of igneous rock
• Hevellyn and other surrounding mountains were formed by past glaciers moving around and plucking rock to form u-shaped valleys