{"id":4383,"date":"2015-12-11T21:26:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:16:57","slug":"astley-sunken-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/astley-sunken-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Astley Sunken Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4627\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4627\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4627\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/section-6.7-exposure-on-west-side-of-sunken-lane.-parrallel-staright-beds.-G.R-7887-6735.-GW-site-location-no.-24-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Astley sunken lane \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/section-6.7-exposure-on-west-side-of-sunken-lane.-parrallel-staright-beds.-G.R-7887-6735.-GW-site-location-no.-24-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/section-6.7-exposure-on-west-side-of-sunken-lane.-parrallel-staright-beds.-G.R-7887-6735.-GW-site-location-no.-24-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/section-6.7-exposure-on-west-side-of-sunken-lane.-parrallel-staright-beds.-G.R-7887-6735.-GW-site-location-no.-24-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/section-6.7-exposure-on-west-side-of-sunken-lane.-parrallel-staright-beds.-G.R-7887-6735.-GW-site-location-no.-24.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astley sunken lane<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Geological Overview<\/b><br \/>\nThis sunken lane leads from Astley church down to Dick Brook and Newbridge Coppice. The track cuts down through several layers (beds) of red sandstone &#8211; a Triassic-aged rock which formed around 230 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the different layers of sandstone display varying sedimentary structures. Beds differ in thickness, some displaying no features, others are finely laminated, other are cross bedded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the diversity of sedimentary structures and grain sizes, some of them subtle, this sunken lane is a pleasing location to explore the environment in which the sediments were first deposited to later be formed into rock.\u00a0 What type of environment allows for this rapidly (in geological terms) changes in environment to create the sedimentary structures seen?<\/p>\n<p><b>Location<br \/>\n<\/b>Astley, Worcestershire; Grid Reference: SO 7890 6745<\/p>\n<p><b>Access<br \/>\n<\/b>Open,\u00a0 along public rights of way<\/p>\n<p><b>Geologi<\/b><b>cal Age<br \/>\n<\/b>Triassic &#8211; Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation<\/p>\n<p><b>Rock Types<br \/>\n<\/b>Sedimentary \u2013 Sandstone, siltstone, mudstone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<br \/>\n<\/strong>Variable grain-size<br \/>\nSedimentary structures<\/p>\n<p><b>Interpretation<br \/>\n<\/b>Section 6 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/category\/explore-geology-landscape\/walking-trails\/the-geopark-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geopark Way trail<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astley sunken lane<\/p>\n<p>Geological Overview This sunken lane leads from Astley church down to Dick Brook and Newbridge Coppice. The track cuts down through several layers (beds) of red sandstone &#8211; a Triassic-aged rock which formed around 230 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the different layers of sandstone display varying [&#8230;]<\/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\/4383"}],"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=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}