Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Shepton Mallet
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Hobbs Quarry (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, notified in 1984.
This disused quarry, which now forms the back of a builders merchants yard, is a Geological Conservation Review Site which demonstrates early Jurassic transgression, with steeply-dipping Carboniferous Limestone being overlain by flatter-lying massive limestones (of early Jurassic age) known as the Downside Stone.
See also
Sources
- English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 22 July 2006). Template:Webarchive
External links
- Natural England website (SSSI information)
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