Hunstanton is notable for its stratified, fossiliferous cliffs: lower reddish limestone, known as ' red chalk ', which was laid down during the Lower Cretaceous Epoch and is topped by a white chalk layer from the Upper Cretaceous Epoch. The stratified red chalk limestone and white chalk cliff s on the beach at Old Hunstanton.

The prominent white streak on the cliff facing the mainland ( see photo ) is often thought by visitors to be bird droppings: although many parts of the islands do exhibit this colouring, in this case it is the result of chalk deposits from the many years of spent calcium carbide from the lighthouse being thrown down the cliff ; this calcium carbide was used to generate acetylene which was used as fuel for the light before electricity came.

In fact, a small chalk rock close to Heligoland, called witt Kliff ( white cliff ), is known to have existed within sight of the island to the west until the early 18th century, when storm floods finally eroded it to below sea level.

In the east, the escarpment terminates at the English Channel coast between Seaford and Eastbourne, where it produces the spectacular white cliffs of Seaford Head, the Seven Sisters, whose undulations reveal a cross-section through a pre-existing landscape of parallel ridges and dry valleys that has been exposed as the high chalk headland has receded through erosion by the sea, and Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain at above sea level.

The hamlet's name is first found in the form White Cliff in the eighteenth century, referring to the white chalk cliff above the road to the east of the hamlet, which has the Whiteleaf Cross cut into the chalk on the side of the hill above it, making an important landmark for miles around.

It sits above the road to the east of the hamlet, whose name is first found in the form White Cliff in the eighteenth century, referring to the white chalk cliff.

Layers of sand, clay, seashells, shale and gravel form the multicolored cliff face, a rainbow of white, tan, yellow and brown.

Its surface is an undulating plateau but the seaward side has been eroded by the waves so that the coast is formed of high white cliffs in which the small valleys which inland, form the undulations, are truncated leaving what are known locally as valleuses, steep-sided notches in the face of the cliff.

On that long strip of undergrowth and shaken turf, one might have said by the stirring of a volcano, the fallen rocks looked like the ruins of a great vanished city which once looked out onto the ocean, itself dominated by the white, endless wall of the cliff .»

On November 24, 2000 Global Television Network Inc., a subsidiary of Canwest, was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service called Extreme Sports, described as " featuring the best of " off-beat " sports programming that will give Canadians the opportunity to live vicariously through the ultimate high associated with such extreme pastimes as high altitude sky diving, cliff diving, white water rafting, and mountain climbing.

To protect against encroachment by the British and Russians, Spain fortified the high white cliff at the narrowest part of the bay's entrance, where Fort Point now stands.

Gaspar Frutuoso, noted: "... there is a high cliff, projecting into the ocean, dressed in trees of cedar, laurel and white wood, its area populated by many of the Captain's wild goats whom ... living above are three or four neighbors ... this is the area we call Cedros, for there are many there ".

Where the chalk hills meet the sea there are white cliffs such as the White Cliffs of Dover, Seven Sisters and The Needles on the Isle of Wight The chalk would once have extended across the English Channel and similar cliff features can be found on the French coast.

The hills are famous for the temple of Lord Ranganatha or Lord Venkatesha which is situated on the highest peak of the hill range, on the ' white cliff ' which gives the hill its name.

The hills are famous for the temple of Lord Ranganatha or Lord Venkatesha which is situated on the highest peak of the hill range, on the ' white cliff ' which gives the hill its name.

The Qutang Gorge along the Yangtze RiverThe Chalk Wall ( 粉笔墙 ) is a white cliff face on the southern bank of the Yangtze River at the entrance to the Qutang Gorge ( Kuimen Gate ).

Finally they reach a cliff overlooking the sea ; a path provides access to the white sandy beach.

One side of the island is a beach covered with white sand, while the other side has a rocky vertical cliff.

A white cross on the cliff commemorate the death of a boy scout in 1941.

Example: About fifteen miles below Monterey, on the wild coast, the Torres family had their farm, a few sloping acres above the cliff that dropped to the brown reefs and to the hissing white waters of the ocean ...

The war was finally ended when a young elf named Eragon found a white dragon egg abandoned on the edge of the cliff.

The cliffs here contain quartz ; the name " Findlater " is derived not from Norse as earliar stated here but from the Scots Gaelic words fionn (" white ") and leitir (" cliff or steep slope ").

Mark's thoughts must have been keeping silent pace beside his own, climbing the same crags in dirty white sneakers, clambering out on top of the headland and coming upon the sudden glinting water at the same instant.

The Phoenician city of Ramitha was located here, known to the Greeks as Leukê Aktê, " white headland ".

: on the highest hill of the headland above the Haven they (…) set a great white pillar as a monument.

Cook described the cape as having steep white cliffs on either side, with two large rocks resembling hay stacks near the headland.

Young David holds the impaled head of Goliath and marches in front of a general riding a white horse, most likely King Saul

The film was shot in black and white by Robby Müller, and features a score composed and performed by Neil Young, for whom Jarmusch subsequently filmed the tour documentary Year of the Horse, released to tepid reviews in 1997.

Young seeks a model for American society that goes beyond the alternatives of integration of Blacks into white society and Black separateness.

Westminster Abbey houses a white marble tablet in memory of Young bearing the epitaph by Hudson Gurney:

Young puffballs in the edible stage, before maturation of the gleba, have undifferentiated white flesh within ; whereas the gills of immature Amanita mushrooms can be seen if they are closely examined.

The club has been nicknamed " The Saints " since its inception in 1885 due to its history as a church football team, founded as St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association ( or St Mary's Y. M. A ) and has since played in red and white.

Under the slogan " The Sound of Young America ", Motown's acts were enjoying widespread popularity among black and white audiences alike.

It has been speculated that Enoch led Young to instigate the ban against black men holding Mormon priesthood when Enoch L. Lewis married a white Mormon woman, Mary Matilda Webster, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 18, 1846.

Young played a key role in the events in Birmingham, Alabama, serving as a mediator between the white and black communities.

Young specimens first emerge from the ground resembling a white egg covered by a universal veil, which then breaks, leaving the volva as a remnant.

Young birds are blackish or chocolate brown with black and white patches.

Young birds are like the female, except that they have dull olive-brown napes and necks, greyish rumps, and greyer tails, with less defined white tips.

Young birds are dark brown in their first year, and gradually acquire more white in subsequent seasons until they reach maturity after five years.

Young caracals bear reddish spots on the underside ; adults do not have markings except for black spots above the eyes and small white patches around the eyes and nose.

Young birds are more brown, have a white neck collar and a duller bill.

On National Day in 2007 at the Padang, 8, 667 volunteers holding up red and white umbrellas formed the largest-ever representation of Singapore's flag at an event organised by Young NTUC, a youth movement associated with the National Trades Union Congress.

" Lee told Brigham Young that the Indians had been solely responsible, that " no white men were mixed up in it.

Young birds are similar to the adult but have less developed hoods and lack the white wing band.

Young Varied Thrushes are generally brown, though its stomach feathers are white, and initially harbors two orange stripes at the covert feathers.

Young birds have buff, rather than white underparts.

* In the animated series Young Justice episode " Alpha Male " Superboy adopts a genetically altered white wolf.

Young forest stands did not positively affect California Spotted Owl reproduction or site occupancy in a white fir-mixed-conifer study area on the Lassen National Forest.

Young birds have a pale brown neck and appear whitish on the underside and lack the white streak along the side of the neck.

Young caterpillars are brown and white ; older ones are green with two black, yellow, and blue eyespots on the thorax.