Warboys Clay Pit is a geological
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...
west of
Warboys
Warboys is a large village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, north-east of Huntingdon.
Geology
Igneous diorite rocks are located around 171–217 meters below ground at Warboys. Discovered in the ...
in
Cambridgeshire.
It is a
Geological Conservation Review site.
According to
Natural England this "unrivalled
Oxfordian section shows more than 20 metres of Upper Oxford Clay". It has
ammonite
Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
fossils dating to the
Late Jurassic, around 160 million years ago.
The site is private land with no public access.
References
External links
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire
Geological Conservation Review sites
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