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[[Image:Four of the Seven Sisters.jpg|thumb|200px|Four of the "Seven Sisters" along the [[Sussex]] coast, [[England]]]]
 
[[Image:Four of the Seven Sisters.jpg|thumb|200px|Four of the "Seven Sisters" along the [[Sussex]] coast, [[England]]]]
'''Chalk''' is a white, sedimentary rock, composed of [[calcium carbonate]]. The calcium carbonate originates from the calcareous liths deposited by blooms of species of [[coccolithophore]] [[phytoplankton]].  
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'''Chalk''' is a white, sedimentary rock, composed of [[calcium carbonate]]. The calcium carbonate originates from the [[calcareous]] liths deposited by blooms of species of [[coccolithophore]] [[phytoplankton]].  
 
One of the most dramatic outcrops of chalk is along the south coast of [[England]] where it forms the "white cliffs of [[Dover]]", the Seven Sisters and parts of England's [[Jurassic Coast]], now a [[World Heritage Site]] in recognition of its unusual geology.
 
One of the most dramatic outcrops of chalk is along the south coast of [[England]] where it forms the "white cliffs of [[Dover]]", the Seven Sisters and parts of England's [[Jurassic Coast]], now a [[World Heritage Site]] in recognition of its unusual geology.
  
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