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North Road Quarry, Bath

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Avon

Interest
  
Geological

Notification
  
1990

Grid reference
  
ST767646

Area
  
3,000 m²

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North Road Quarry, Bath (grid reference ST767646) is a 0.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest close to Sham Castle in the city of Bath, Somerset, notified in 1990.

It is a Geological Conservation Review site because it contains an exposure of Oolite, which shows a very clear example of dip-and-fault structure. In addition it reveals Pleistocene 'plateaugravels' made up of flint, chert, limestone, coal, shales, sandstone and conglomerate, sometimes in a silty matrix, sometimes clast supported.

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North Road Quarry, Bath Wikipedia