Creeting St Mary Pits

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Creeting St Mary Pits
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Creeting St Mary Pits 4.jpg
Location Suffolk
Grid reference TM 096 554 [1]
InterestGeological
Area5.4 hectares [1]
Notification 1987 [1]
Location map Magic Map

Creeting St Mary Pits is a 5.4-hectare (13-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south Creeting St Mary in Suffolk, England. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [3]

These former quarries are the type site for the 'Creeting Sands', which are believed to be intertidal and shallow marine deposits from an early Pleistocene interglacial. It is described by Natural England as a key stratigraphic site. [4]

This site is in three areas, and there is public access to the southern one, but not to the northern ones.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Creeting St Mary Pits". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Map of Creeting St Mary Pits". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Creeting St Mary Pits (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Creeting St Mary Pits citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2017.

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