Hartcliff Rocks Quarry () is a 1.6 hectare (3.9 acre)
Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near
Felton,
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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notified in 1991.
According to the citation, the site "provides exposures of
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...
Dolomitic Conglomerate unconformably overlying
Carboniferous Limestone
Carboniferous Limestone is a collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland that were deposited during the Dinantian epoch (geology), Epoch of the Carboniferous period (geology), Period. T ...
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References
External links
Natural England - SSSI information - Hartcliff Rocks Quarry
Bath and North East Somerset
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1991
Quarries in Somerset
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