Sources de Petites-Dalles

Sources de Petites-Dalles in Sassetot-le-Mauconduit, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France, offers ferruginous and bicarbonate mineral spring waters whose iron-rich character creates the distinctive orange coloring of the chalk and flint beach—a visual spectacle in which the warm iron tones of the mineral spring meet the white of the Norman chalk cliffs and the grey-blue of the English Channel to create one of the most colorfully distinctive coastal mineral spring sites on the Alabaster Coast. The ferruginous mineral character of the spring reflects the iron-bearing geological layers within the Normandy chalk sequence, identical in geological origin to the famous iron springs of nearby Étretat—a reminder that the entire Alabaster Coast is underlain by iron-bearing chalk formations that produce these characteristic orange-colored coastal springs. The colored chalk, iron springs, and Alabaster Coast scenery together create a coastal mineral spring experience of exceptional geological visual drama among the cliffs and beaches of the Norman Channel shore.