Or is it, though? Is it not lemon mousse? Well, I for one would not want to try to serve this into a bowl with a spoon... And neither are the orangey lines toasted sugar. This is harder than your average chalk - which in turn is far from bring the boring white featureless mass that you might think. When you look at it you see details, structures, layers and beds. It tells tales of a greenhouse Earth, of the movement of continents and the growth of mountains. It tells tales of the life that lived in the seas where it settled.
This is West Runton in Norfolk on the east coast of the UK. You're standing on the top of the Chalk (with a capital 'C') and looking up at huge blocks and rafts of chalk which have been driven uphill by glaciers. Yes, glaciers can do that - they can do whatever they want. The chalk now finds itself surrounded by much younger sediments that tell the tale of temperatures falling into an Ice Age. West Runton was home to a Steppe mammoth, excavated there and now on display in Norwich, and to a variety of other terrestrial and freshwater fauna and flora. Norfolk isn't flat and it certainly isn't boring!
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