There are currently more than 90 designated Local Geological Sites in Worcestershire, covering a number of the rock types and landscape features to be found (See Local Geology section). For more information about the sites listed below, please contact eht@worc.ac.uk:
Site Name | Geology/Geomorphology |
Abberley Hall (South Terrace) | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Abberley Hall East | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Abberley Village | Silurian, Upper Ludlow Shale |
Ashmoor Common | Quaternary, Pleistocene |
Bark Hill | Carboniferous, Coal Measures Series, Etruria Formation |
Barrel Heald Quarry | Silurian, Upper Ludlow Shale/Downton Castle Formation |
Beckford Gravel Pit | Quaternary, Pleistocene |
Bewdley Road Cutting East | Triassic, Sherwood Sandstone Group |
Bewdley Road Cutting West | Permian, Sherwood Sandstone Group |
Blackstone Rock | Permian/Triassic, Bridgnorth Sandstone and Kidderminster Formation, Quaternary |
Bredon Hill, Camber Slope | Quaternary, Jurassic, Inferior Oolite |
Bredon Hill, King and Queen Stones | Quaternary, Jurassic, Inferior Oolite |
Bredon Hill, The Banbury Stone | Quaternary, Jurassic, Inferior Oolite |
Bredon Hill, Woollashill | Quaternary, Jurassic, Lias |
Broadway Quarry | Jurassic, Inferior Oolite Series |
Brockhill Court Quarry | Silurian |
Callow Farm Track | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Callow Track North | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Camp Farm Quarry | Silurian, Upper Ludlow Shale |
Castlemorton Common | Triassic, Quaternary/Devensian |
Dingle Quarry | Precambrian, Malvern Complex |
Easthope Farm | Silurian, Aymestry Limestone |
Eymore Railway Cutting | Carboniferous, Westphalian Formation |
Fetterlocks Wood | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Gullet Main Quarry | Precambrian, Malvern Complex |
Hartlebury Common | Quaternary, Triassic, Bromsgrove & Wildmoor Sandstone Formations. |
High Wood Sports Field | Silurian, Llandovery Series |
Hunthouse No.6 Colliery | Carboniferous, Coal Measure Series |
Hunthouse Wood | Carboniferous, Coal Measure Series, Halesowen Formation |
Ivy Scar Rock | Precambrian, Igneous |
Leigh Brook | Quaternary and Silurian |
Lippetts Farm Quarry | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Longley Green Quarry 1 | Silurian, Aymestry Limestone, Upper Ludlow Shales Formation |
Longley Green 1 | Quaternary, Mathon Valley Formation |
Lower Tolgate Quarry | Precambrian, Malvern Complex, |
Madeley Heath | Quaternary, Triassic, Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation |
Mamble Colliery | Carboniferous, Coal Measure Series |
Martley Roadside | Triassic, Bromsgrove Sandstone/Mercia Mudstone Formations |
Osebury Rock | Triassic, Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation |
Park Wood | Silurian, Coalbrookdale and Much Wenlock Limestone Formations |
Parkwood Quarries | Silurian, Coalbrookdale and Much Wenlock Limestone Formations |
Penny Hill | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Pixty Quarry | Precambrian, Igneous, Metamorphic |
Quarry Farm, Penny Hill | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Redstone Rock | Triassic, Wildmoor Sandstone Formation |
Reservoir Quarry | Precambrian, Warren House Series |
Rushy Valley | Quaternary, head |
Scar Cottage | Triassic, Bridgnorth Sandstone |
Scar Quarry | Triassic/Precambrian junction |
Shavers End Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series, |
Shepley Sandpit and Knoll | Triassic, Kidderminster Formation |
Shewards Quarry | Silurian, Upper Ludlow Shales |
Southstone Rock | Silurian, Devonian, Lower ORS Series, Quaternary |
Suckley 2 | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Suckley 3 | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Tank Quarry | Precambrian, Igneous |
Upper Tolgate Quarry | Precambrian, Malvern Complex |
Wallhouse | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
Walsgrove Hill | Silurian, Aymestry Limestone Formation |
Westminster Arms Quarry | Precambrian, Malvern Complex |
Wide Valley | Malvernian, Quaternary/Devensian |
Woodbury Old Quarry | Silurian, Upper Ludlow Shales/Downton Castle Formation |
Woodbury Quarry | Silurian, Pridoli, Ludlow, Bringewood, Leintwardine and Whitcliffe Formations, Quaternary |
Woodlands Stud Lane | Upper Carboniferous, Highley Beds |
Worcester Road Cutting | Triassic, Wildmore Sandstone Formation |
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