The county s chalk has provided a world-class stratigraphic marker giving a great deal of detail in Cretaceous Chalk palaeoecology and palaeontology while in the east of the county on the Kentish border the Dungeness Foreland is important for the study of geomorphology and Holocene sea level fluctuations.
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The findings of the Mossel Bay Archaeology Project have been brought to school children in the Western Cape Province through the work of the SACP4 Education Project ( South African Coastal Palaeoanthropology, Palaeoclimates, Palaeoenvironments and Palaeoecology Project ), which offers field trips to the Dias Museum Complex and its mock archaeology dig.
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In " Quaternary Palaeoecology ", first published in 1980, Birks and Birks described how paleoecological studies " of peat can be used to reveal what plant communities were present ( locally and regionally ), what time period each community occupied, how environmental conditions changed, and how environment affected the ecosystem in that time and place ."
