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Crabtree
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The UK is Getting Smaller

03/15/2012 8:09 AM

Good brief! Some of Blighty has collapsed!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/dover-cliff-collapse-sends-thousands-of-tonnes-of-chalk-rock-crashing-into-the-english-channel.html

There is no truth in the rumour of a Tsunami of 0.03mm devastating the town of Boulogne, in northern France.

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03/15/2012 3:22 PM

Are you saying the chalk market is collapsing? It had to happen....what with the digital age and all...

http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2012/03/15/the-dover-chalk-cliff-rockfall-in-the-context-of-other-such-events/

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03/15/2012 6:00 PM

Back to the drawing board. Enough chalk for a life time

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Re: The UK is Getting Smaller

03/16/2012 8:23 AM

Back to the drawing board <groan>

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