Glenthorne

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox SSSI Glenthorne (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) is a 13.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Oare within the Exmoor National Park, on the border of Somerset and Devon, notified in 1989.

Glenthorne is a Geological Conservation Review site because of the Trentishoe Formation of the Hangman Sandstone Group. The Hangman Sandstone represents the Middle Devonian sequence of North Devon and Somerset.[1] These are unusual freshwater deposits in the Hangman Grits, which were mainly formed in desert conditions.[2]

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