Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Shepton Mallet
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location within Somerset | |
Location | Somerset |
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Grid reference | ST622446 |
Coordinates | 51°11′58″N 2°32′33″W / 51.19936°N 2.54238°WCoordinates: 51°11′58″N 2°32′33″W / 51.19936°N 2.54238°W |
Interest | Geological |
Area | 0.5 hectares (0.0050 km2; 0.0019 sq mi) |
Notification | 1984 |
Natural England website |
Hobbs Quarry (grid reference ST622446) is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, notified in 1984.
This disused quarry, which now forms the back of a builders merchants yard, is a Geological Conservation Review Site which demonstrates early Jurassic transgression, with steeply-dipping Carboniferous Limestone being overlain by flatter-lying massive limestones (of early Jurassic age) known as the Downside Stone.
See also[]
Sources[]
- English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 22 July 2006)
External links[]
- Natural England website (SSSI information)
Categories:
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1984
- Quarries in the Mendip Hills
- Geology of Somerset
- Shepton Mallet
- English Site of Special Scientific Interest stubs
- Somerset geography stubs