Satellite image of Great Britain showing the Tees-Exe line in red

The Tees-Exe line is an imaginary line that can be drawn on a map of Great Britain which roughly divides the lowland and upland regions of the country. See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands

The line links the mouth of the River Tees between Redcar and Hartlepool in the north east of England with the mouth of the River Exe in Devon, the south west. The Tees is a river in Northern England. It rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the Pennines, and flows eastwards for about 85 miles Redcar is a Seaside resort and the principal town in the Unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire Hartlepool ('hɑːtlɪpuːl is a North Sea port in North East England The River Exe in England rises near the village of Simonsbath, on Exmoor in Somerset, near the Bristol Channel coast Devon is a large county in the South West of England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name The lowlands (sedimentary rocks) are predominant to the east of the line and higher land (igneous and metamorphic rocks) dominates to the west. Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock types (the others being igneous and Metamorphic rock) Igneous rocks (etymology from Latin ignis, fire are rocks formed by solidification of cooled Magma (molten rock Metamorphic rock is the result of the transformation of an existing rock type the protolith, in a process called Metamorphism, which means "change As well as geology, those areas to the north and west of the line are generally wetter in climate than those to the east and south.

See also

• Geology of the United Kingdom