{"id":4381,"date":"2015-12-11T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:16:44","slug":"abberley-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/abberley-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Abberley Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shavers End Quarry as viewed from Abberley Hill<\/p><\/div>\n

Geological Overview
\n<\/b><\/b>Abberley Hill rises out of the otherwise gently rolling landscape and is made up of rocks that formed around 420 million years ago, during the Silurian Period. These rocks were uplifted along a line of weakness in the Earth’s crust during a mountain building events that happened between 360 and 250 million years ago.<\/p>\n

At locations such as Shavers End Quarry the layers of Silurian-aged limestones and shales you can see that they layers of rock are almost vertical, and even in places have been overturned, all due to the powerful forces exerted on the rocks during the aforementioned mountain building event.<\/p>\n

Location
\n<\/b>Astley and Dunley & Abberley, worcestershire; Grid Reference: SO 7603 6697<\/p>\n

Access
\n<\/b>Open,\u00a0 along public rights of way<\/p>\n

Geologi<\/b>cal Age
\n<\/b>The Hill – Silurian <\/b><\/p>\n

Rock Types
\n<\/b>Sedimentary \u2013 Shale and limestone<\/p>\n

Features
\n<\/strong>Explore the underlying Silurian rocks
\nFantastic views to the north and east that reveal the varying geology of the surrounding landscape<\/p>\n

Interpretation
\n<\/b>Shavers End Quarry interpretation board – exploring the structure and lithologies of Abberley Hill
\nAbberley Hill interpretation board exploring the surronding landforms and landscapes
\nSection 6 of the Geopark Way trail<\/a>
\nExplore Abberley Hill trail guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Shavers End Quarry as viewed from Abberley Hill<\/p>\n

Geological Overview Abberley Hill rises out of the otherwise gently rolling landscape and is made up of rocks that formed around 420 million years ago, during the Silurian Period. These rocks were uplifted along a line of weakness in the Earth’s crust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}