North Road Quarry, Bath

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North Road Quarry, Bath
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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North Road Quarry, Bath is located in Somerset
North Road Quarry, Bath
Location within Somerset
Area of Search Avon
Grid reference ST767646
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Interest Geological
Area 0.3 hectares (0.0030 km2; 0.0012 sq mi)
Notification 1990 (1990)
Natural England website

North Road Quarry, Bath (grid reference ST767646) is a 0.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest close to Sham Castle in the city of Bath, Somerset, notified in 1990.

It is a Geological Conservation Review site because it contains an exposure of Oolite, which shows a very clear example of dip-and-fault structure. In addition it reveals Pleistocene 'plateaugravels' made up of flint, chert, limestone, coal, shales, sandstone and conglomerate, sometimes in a silty matrix, sometimes clast supported.[1]

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