{"id":4397,"date":"2015-12-11T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:17:44","slug":"gardiners-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/gardiners-quarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardiners Quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gardiners Quarry Champions Site<\/p><\/div>\n

Geological overview
\n<\/b>In Gardiners Quarry the story is not so much one of differing rock types, but about what has happened to the main mass of the Malvern Hills rock since it formed all those years ago during Precambrian times. The main body of rock in the quarry is diorite. Rather than being one continuous body of rock however, the quarry face is fractured \u2013 sections of the rock have broken apart forming joints, or have broken apart and moved \u2013 been displaced, relative to the neighbouring section of rock along geological faults. Along with displacing and fracturing masses of rock, movement along these faults has left other telltale signs in the rocks \u2013 slickensides, dykes and mineralisation.<\/p>\n

Gardiners Quary is a Community Conservation Champions<\/a> site.\u00a0 The \u2018Champions\u2019 are a loosely knit group of volunteers who are actively involved in the maintenance and public promotion of 19 geological sites spread across the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. They are engaged in a wide range of activities which vary according to the nature of the site.<\/p>\n

Location
\n<\/b>Colwall, Malvern Hills, Herefordshire; Grid Reference: SO 7662 4207<\/p>\n

Access
\n<\/b>Open access<\/p>\n

\"Champions-Logo-Final1-300x249\"Geologi<\/b>cal Age
\n<\/b>Precambrian \u2013 Malverns Complex
\n<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Rock Types
\n<\/b>Igneous \u2013 granite, dolerite<\/p>\n

Features<\/strong>
\nVariable lithologies
\nShear zone
\nFaulting
\nDykes
\nVeining
\nSlickensides<\/p>\n

Area structural geology<\/p>\n

Interpretation
\n<\/b>Interpretation board
\nMalvern Community Champions trail and guide<\/a>
\n‘Explore’ Malvern Hills 1 guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Gardiners Quarry Champions Site<\/p>\n

Geological overview In Gardiners Quarry the story is not so much one of differing rock types, but about what has happened to the main mass of the Malvern Hills rock since it formed all those years ago during Precambrian times. The main body of rock in […]<\/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\/4397"}],"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=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}