Bowlditch Quarry

Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, England

51°18′01″N 2°28′39″W / 51.30035°N 2.47759°W / 51.30035; -2.47759InterestGeologicalArea0.6 acres (0.0024 km2; 0.00094 sq mi)Notification1952 (1952)Natural England website

Bowlditch Quarry (grid reference ST668558) is a 0.25 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Clandown, Bath and North East Somerset, notified in 1952.

The site provides a remarkable attenuated and broken succession stretching from the top of the Rhaetian to the lowest Pliensbachian periods. This Lias section provides a good example of biostratigraphic principles.[1]

References

  1. ^ English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 9 July 2006)
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