Jackdaw Quarry

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Jackdaw Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Location within Gloucestershire
Location Gloucestershire
Grid reference SP077309
Coordinates 51°58′37″N1°53′19″W / 51.976963°N 1.88858°W / 51.976963; -1.88858
InterestGeological
Area4.78 hectare
Notification 1985
Natural England website

Jackdaw Quarry (grid reference SP077309 ) is a 4.78-hectare (11.8-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1985. [1] [2]

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Location and geology

The site is in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to the north of the county. It provides significant exposures of a succession in the Inferior Oolite strata of the Middle Jurassic time interval. These exhibit characteristics unique to the north Cotswolds. They span the Junction between the Aalenian and Bajocian Stages. [1]

The evidence shows that the site lay within an extensive area called the Moreton Swell. This was uplifted in early Bajocian times. The site is important for geological research, and of significant value in reconstruction of the geography of the Middle Jurassic time period. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Natural England SSSI information on the citation [ permanent dead link ]
  2. "Tewkesbury Borough Local Plan to 2011, adopted March 2006, Appendix 3 'Nature Conservation', Sites of Special Scientific Interest". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2012.

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