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English: Exposed chalk outcrop The chalk outcrop is only visible at low water. It is composed of calcium carbonate from the remains of microscopic marine organisms that once lived in a warm shallow sea which covered this area between 62 and 132 million years ago. Its upper few centimetres are composed of fragments of rocks.

http://www.chesterfieldlodge.fsnet.co.uk/Geology/west%20runton-east%20runton.htm http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?document=400.500.100.025

Cromer and Cromer pier can be seen in the far distance.
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Camera location52° 56′ 27″ N, 1° 15′ 46″ E  Heading=112° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location52° 56′ 25″ N, 1° 15′ 54″ E  Heading=112° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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