2006-10-25 02:07:17 · 6 answers · asked by jonnycumlikely 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
millions of years ago Bedfordshire was under the sea as was most of the UK when the land mass was pushed up the sand was exposed. As well as up the land mass that includes the uk has over time moved thousands of miles from roughly where the sahara desert is now I know it is hard to belive but it is true!
2006-10-25 02:15:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
There's a belt of sandstone rocks that runs NE - SW just to the north of the edge of the Chiltern Hills, right through the middle of Bedfordshire. Technically speaking, it's called the "Greensand", of early Cretaceous age. I'm sure they quarry it in a number of places. The town of "Sandy", on the A1 Great North Road, sits right on top of this strata, and I'm sure the name isn't coincidental.
It's possible that some of this got reworked by the glaciers (see previous answer), but the original source of the sand are the beds of Greensand.
2006-10-26 20:31:38 · answer #2 · answered by grpr1964 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It occured during the last ice age when the glaciers were to the north of you.
Glaciers do a lot of eroding, they make a lot of sand.
As the ice came south, it got warmer and the ice melted.
The rivers transported this sand and gravel to beds, where it got depostied.
Its not the only place in the south east to have a lot of sand andgravel
2006-10-26 08:42:34 · answer #3 · answered by gemstonesr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be the fact that its carried across from the sahara and is deposited from the sky. Or the fact that there is large amounts of sandstone in Bedfordshire
2006-10-25 02:10:14 · answer #4 · answered by guitar_f1ngers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where ??? i have visited beds and saw no sand anywhere ..
2006-10-25 02:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by slysimon69 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have there been any builders out there lately? If so blame them.
2006-10-25 03:16:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋