Guildford district map pack - Sheet Explanation for sheet E285 plus 1:50 000 (S&D) map [Booklet and Map Pack]
Price £18.00(no VAT)
This pack contains a Sheet Explanation for the district and the complementary 1:50 000 scale Bedrock Geology and Superficial Deposits map (folded). Sheet Explanations provide a brief description and interpretation of the geology of the relevant map sheet area.
The A5 Sheet Explanation booklet and the map are supplied in a transparent wallet. While it is possible to buy the map and Sheet Explanation separately, buying them together as map pack saves you £3.
The main centres of population are in the River Blackwater valley between Farnham and Camberley, and in the River Wey valley at Guildford and Woking. The character of the district is strongly influenced by the underlying geology. In the north, dominantly sandy deposits of Tertiary age give rise to extensive heathland, large tracts of which are used by the Ministry of Defence. Trending east–west across the middle of the district is a narrow belt of relatively steeply dipping Chalk that between Farnham and Guildford forms a prominent ridge known as the Hog's Back. It is the surface expression of a deep-seated geological structure that separates the concealed London Platform of Palaeozoic rocks in the north from a deep basin of Mesozoic strata in the south. The exposed strata of this Weald Basin are variable in lithology and hardness, giving rise to attractive hilly countryside around Godalming, underlain mostly by the Lower Greensand that is important locally as an aquifer.
[Booklet and Map Pack]
Format Booklet and Map Pack
Scale 1:50 000
Sheet(s) Covered E285
Year Published 2002
