Geology
Southeast England with the capital London, the most specific part of the main island, differs in many respects from the other parts of the country. The geological structure is justified by the Mesozoic sediments, a generously structured Escarpments landscape could arise. Their heights nowhere soar high, so that the entire area the climatic advantages of the South East enjoys. Because rainfall is low and, despite major winter cold, the warmer the summer cropping favourable, especially since most rocks and the overlying glacial deposits soils showed significantly better than in the Gebirgsländern.
If still in the course of the last centuries of arable repeatedly showed setbacks, these are in the economic structure in Britain, not in the nature of the country founded. In the kontinentnahen South East has always been the focus of the island kingdom. Here summarised by the mainland coming conqueror – Romans, Saxony, Normans – first base. Also as with the discovery of America and the development of maritime the outer sides of the island due to its favourable location further stimulated, was the old cultural center say. London remained the gate of the island world.
