The Stockbridge Anticline is one of a series of parallel east-west trending
folds in the Cretaceous chalk of Hampshire . It lies at the western end of the South Downs , immediately to the north of the Winchester-King's Somborne Syncline and east of Salisbury Plain .
Structure
The anticline axis runs for around 35 kilometres (22 mi) from around the Wallops , swinging south-south-east through Stockbridge and Crawley , between Micheldever and Kings Worthy , towards Medstead in the east.[ 1] [ 2]
Hills include Danebury and Chattis Hill to the west, Stockbridge Down, Woolbury , Chilbolton Down , Windmill Hill (Crawley) and Abbotstone Down.
Parallel folds to the south include the Winchester-East Meon Anticline and the Winchester-King's Somborne Syncline. To the north is the Micheldever Syncline . As with other nearby folds, the structure is controlled by movement of fault blocks within the Jurassic strata below.[ 3]
See also
List of geological folds in Great Britain
References
^ Winchester (Map). 1:50000. British Geological Survey England and Wales. British Geological Survey. 2002. ISBN 0-7518-3340-1 ^ Alresford (Map). 1:50000. British Geological Survey England and Wales. British Geological Survey. 1999. ISBN 0-7518-3250-2 ^ Booth, K.A. (2002). Geology of the Winchester district - a brief explanation of the geological map . British Geological Survey. ISBN 0-85272-429-2
