"Steve Slatcher" > wrote in message
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> Ronin wrote:
>>> However, it is nice to see that our terroir (actually the same seam of
>>> rock that goes through Champagne) is getting recognition.
>>
>> Could you please expand on that? Provide support? Define seam?
>
> By seam[1] I mean the same level of limestone as it was deposited. After
> deposition, the seam distorted. It now dips under the English Channel,
> and it breaks through to the surface in Champagne and Southern England to
> form the South Downs. It will not be identical rock, as it is obviously
> in 2 different places, but it was laid down at the same time and by more
> or less the same process.
>
Actually, it is pretty close to being uniform.
Graham