{"id":4387,"date":"2015-12-11T21:22:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:17:17","slug":"chase-end-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/chase-end-quarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase End Quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4632\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4632\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4632\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gneissose-foliation-in-Chase-end-Quarry-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Gneissose foliation in Chase End Quarry\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gneissose-foliation-in-Chase-end-Quarry-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gneissose-foliation-in-Chase-end-Quarry-150x115.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gneissose-foliation-in-Chase-end-Quarry-400x306.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gneissose-foliation-in-Chase-end-Quarry.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gneissose foliation in Chase End Quarry<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Geological Overview<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong>The quarry lies within a fault-bounded inlier (an area of older rocks surrounded by younger rocks) composed of the rocks of the Malverns Complex. This inlier forms the southernmost extent of the Malvern Hills and, as such, the quarry is the most southerly exposure of the Malverns Complex.\u00a0 The rocks in the quarry are metamorphic rocks of the Malverns Complex. The rocks were originally diorites; medium to coarse grained intrusive igneous rocks, containing plagioclase, amphibole or biotite, estimated to be around 680 &#8211; 670 million years old.<\/p>\n<p><b>Location<br \/>\n<\/b>Bromsberrow, Malvern Hills, Gloucestershire; Grid Reference: SO 7580 3505<\/p>\n<p><b>Access<br \/>\n<\/b>Open<\/p>\n<p><b>Geologi<\/b><b>cal Age<br \/>\n<\/b>Precambrian &#8211; Malverns Complex<\/p>\n<p><b>Rock Types<br \/>\n<\/b>Igneous &#8211; Diorites<br \/>\nMetamorphic- gneiss<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Features<br \/>\n<\/strong>Gneissose foliation<br \/>\nPegmatite veins<\/p>\n<p><b>Interpretation<br \/>\n<\/b>Interpretation board on site<br \/>\n&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/2s-uncovered-chase-end-hill-geology-and-landscape-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uncovered&#8217; Chase End Hill trail guide<\/a><br \/>\nSection 13 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/category\/explore-geology-landscape\/walking-trails\/the-geopark-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geopark Way<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gneissose foliation in Chase End Quarry<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geological Overview The quarry lies within a fault-bounded inlier (an area of older rocks surrounded by younger rocks) composed of the rocks of the Malverns Complex. This inlier forms the southernmost extent of the Malvern Hills and, as such, the quarry is the most [&#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\/4387"}],"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=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}