Alabaster coast

One calls Côte of Alabaster the coast Norman on the Manche corresponding to the Pays of Caux (it constitutes to it quasi totality of the littoral of the Seine-Maritime).

Presentation

The term refers to the white color of high the cliff S chalky constituting the major part of this littoral.

Between the cliff portions (of which most famous are those of Étretat and highest those of the Tréport) were formed of the small dry valleys or hanging valleys of small coastal rivers.

Some ports shelter in the most important notches:

Étretat,
Fécamp,
Dieppe,
Saint-Valéry-in-Caux,
Tréport.

The Côte of Alabaster is constitutive of the Pays of Caux (of the Havre until Dieppe) and of the Petit Caux (of Dieppe until the Tréport).

It draws its name from the whiteness of its cliffs, which are stretched on 120 km, forming a single landscape in the world. Only three rivers boring a breach allowed the establishment of cities:

Fécamp, on the River of Valmont
Dieppe, on the Arch
Tréport, on the Bresle

High vertical walls of rising limestone from 60 to 120 m above the sea level, the cliffs by places are larded of black flint veins. The sea the attack and gains thus until a meter per annum, corroding the foot of cliffs by ceaseless waves: the high part ends up yielding, resting more on nothing.

The chalky elements dissolve in water, giving him a color gray bronzes milky, while the hard part, the pieces of flint, are rolled and eroded by the remoud until forming rollers with the smooth and perfect forms.

These rollers reduced out of powder use the manufacture of the porcelain and are used in chemical industry.

See too

List of the French seaside resorts
Littoral
Coast
Alabaster
the Community of communes of the Alabaster Coast
Tourism on the Alabaster Coast (activities, lodgings, etc)

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