Distribution, petrology and mode of development of silcretes (sarsens and puddingstones) on the eastern South Downs, UK

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• acid 4%
• basin 3%
• calcite 5%
• cement (construction material) 5%
• cementation 6%
• chalk 7%
• clay 4%
• clay mineral 5%
• coastal plain 6%
• crack 5%
• distribution 23%
• drainage 4%
• erosion 4%
• Europe 4%
• fabric 21%
• field study 5%
• flint 8%
• groundwater 3%
• in situ 4%
• iron oxide 6%
• laboratory 3%
• leaching 4%
• material 5%
• micromorphology 8%
• Neogene 6%
• outlier 6%
• Paleocene 13%
• petrology 68%
• quartz 9%
• sand 4%
• sediment 21%
• silcrete 100%
• silica 10%
• silicification 24%
• texture 4%
• valley 18%
• weathering 5%