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Cliff investigation: Dover Coastguard said a full survey has yet to be carried out to determine the exact amount and length of cliff that crumbled on Friday.

Why measure it?

Awful lot of Rennies there.

Why measure it?

1. To lower the tax burden on the land owner for the now missing land

or;

2 to assess a fine against the land owner for littering

Might be some poor buggah underneath it.:uhoh:

Why measure it?

Because it's a cliffhanger, and the answer is needed!

Is it my imagination or is the section to the right of the present slide look like it is ready to go as well judging by the chalk line evident at the top.

It has been collapsing since the end of the last Ice Age when Channel flooded about 12,000 years ago,the new Ice Age will again turn the Channel into dry land and the collapsing will stop.
:)

That's not French chalk is it ?

Spent 3 years studying all aspects of Geomorphology, (under C.A.M. King and John Doornkamp).
If it moves, measure it. :ok:

Solar,
Good spot.

I bet it would be your 2nd suggestion rather than your first ;)

When I was a urchin when one of those thick walls the Railways used to build along their tracks in my town collapsed in high winds,it was in a place that was not used much so it was left for a few months before they cleared it away,when they did shift it they found a poor buggah that had been walking past it when the collapse occurred squished underneath,the sad thing was,nobody had missed him.
:(

There'll be blueeeee skieeeeessss over the white scree slopes of Doooveeerrr.....:\

Map/chart updating purposes?

HTC

Why measure it?


Vehicle GPS systems will have to be updated.

It has been collapsing since the end of the last Ice Age when Channel flooded about 12,000 years ago,the new Ice Age will again turn the Channel into dry land and the collapsing will stop.
I always said the Channel Tunnel was a waste of money.

Suppose these falls save on white paint.
Would there not be a case for either controlled slides to prevent an event like Mr D describes or even some means of reducing them which I presume would be cost prohibitive.
Does the landowner have any compensation in cases like this?

Did it cause a tidal wave in France? :p

You cant fight geology Mr Solar,it operates on a different timescale to we talking monkeys.
:)

when they did shift it they found a poor buggah that had been walking past it when the collapse occurred squished underneath,the sad thing was,nobody had missed him.

That sort of thing happens all the time, so it seems, and not always by accident.

Digging around, as so many of us so often do, in the history of Shotts Parish in Lanarkshire, we have just stumbled on the Parish Church of Old Monkland.

When the church there was rebuilt circa 1795, "an aged lady" of some eighty summers, one Mrs Crawford, had a vivid recollection of the demolition of the auld kirk. When the workmen were removing the belfry stairs, they came upon the skeleton of a man, firmly built into the wall in an upright position.

"It was surmised and generally credited at the time was the punishment inflicted by the Free Masons, in olden times, when any of the order was found guilty of divulging its secrets."

Incidentally, has anyone heard lately of the "Tartan Gannet"? Just a coincidence, of course.

Sir Walter Scott has a tale along the same lines.

Being walled up was a punishment generally reserved for the ladies,they tended to get a bit more medieval with the chaps,frinstance I recall reading there was a Kirk North of the Wall that had the skin of a Viking nailed to its door for a couple of hundred years.
:uhoh:
Then of course we had the wee Kirk of the Skulls as well.
Viking were not popular thereabouts.

Viking were not popular thereabouts

Yes. I believe that is why the more popular "first foots" at Hogmanay are dark in hair and complexion; i.e., not Viking.

Then again, what are the MacLeods and the MacAulays, when we come down to it?

crumbled on FridayThis happened in March, according to the Beeb (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-17366396)