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Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Shepton Mallet
Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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Location | Somerset |
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Grid reference | ST622446 |
Coordinates | 51.19936°N 2.54238°W / 51.19936; -2.54238 |
Interest | Geological |
Area | 0.5 hectares (0.0050 km2; 0.0019 sq mi) |
Notification | 1984 (1984) |
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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.