{"id":4405,"date":"2015-12-11T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:18:10","slug":"huntley-quarry-geology-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/huntley-quarry-geology-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntley Quarry Geology Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4666\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4666\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4666\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/huntquarry-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Huntley Quarry \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/huntquarry-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/huntquarry-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/huntquarry-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/huntquarry.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huntley Quarry<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Geological overview<br \/>\n<\/b>The Reserve was officially opened in 2007, and is the first geology reserve in Gloucestershire. The reserve, and its surrounding woodland, cover an area of 0.87 hectares and is owned and managed by Gloucestershire Geology Trust. Three quarries, as well as the bluebell and daffodil woodland can be visited at the reserve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Acker\u2019s Quarry<\/span> is a small site, which exposes Triassic Bromsgrove Sandstone sediments, some 237 \u2013 228 million years old. These sediments were probably deposited in a river or estuary that flowed across the deserts of the supercontinent Pangaea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bright\u2019s Hill Quarry<\/span> can be found to the back of Huntley Quarry. Exposed here are Early Silurian (Huntley Hill Formation) siltstones and sandstones, dating from 436 \u2013 428 million years ago. These sediments were probably deposited in a shallow marine environment, which bordered a landmass called the Midlands Platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Huntley Quarry<\/span> is the main quarry within the reserve and is a \u2018geological gem\u2019. Listed below are just a few of the reasons why this quarry is geologically very important:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only known exposure of the Huntley Quarry Beds. These have recently been dated to Late Ordovician to Early Silurian, 445 \u2013 439 million years ago<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sandstones and siltstones that make up the Huntley Quarry Beds contain volcanic material, lava and ash fall deposits. These are volcaniclastic sediments<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Blaisdon Fault is very well displayed within the quarry<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Huntley Quarry Beds appear to lie near horizontal near the A40, becoming obviously overturned in the main quarry<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Huntley Quarry Beds appear to form the core of the May Hill Dome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\"><b><strong>Location<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/b>Huntley, Gloucestershire; Grid Reference SO 70951955<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><b>Access<br \/>\n<\/b>Open<\/p>\n<p><b>Geologi<\/b><b>cal Age<br \/>\n<\/b>Silurian &#8211; Huntley Quarry Beds<br \/>\nTriassic &#8211; Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation<br \/>\nTriassic &#8211; Mercia Mudstone Group<b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Rock Types<br \/>\n<\/b>Sedimentary \u2013 sandstone, silstones, volcanaclastic material<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><br \/>\nFolding<br \/>\nFaulting<br \/>\nUnconformity<br \/>\nArea structural geology and geological history setting<\/p>\n<p><b>Interpretation<br \/>\n<\/b>Interpretation boards on site<b> <\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/5s-huntley-quarry-reserve-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huntley Quarry Geology Reserve booklet<\/a><br \/>\nSection 15 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><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/4s-uncovered-huntley-longhope-hobbs-ridge-geology-and-landscape-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huntley, Longhope and Hobb&#8217;s Ridge trail guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huntley Quarry<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geological overview The Reserve was officially opened in 2007, and is the first geology reserve in Gloucestershire. The reserve, and its surrounding woodland, cover an area of 0.87 hectares and is owned and managed by Gloucestershire Geology Trust. Three quarries, as well as the bluebell and daffodil woodland [&#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\/4405"}],"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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6500,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/6500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}