Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
According to Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World by Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter, the White Cliffs of Dover are made from millions of years of buildup of exoskeletons of plated marine microbes called coccolithophores.
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