{"id":4414,"date":"2015-12-11T20:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:21:53","slug":"loxters-ashbed-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/loxters-ashbed-quarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Loxters Ashbed quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Loxter Ashbed Quarry Champions Site<\/p><\/div>\n

Geological overview
\n<\/b>Loxter Ashbed is a disused limestone quarry. The geology of Loxter Ashbed Quarry dates to the Silurian period of time, approximately 422 million years ago. The rocks are limestones and belong to the Aymestry Limestone Formation. The site is a wonderful example of an anticline together with offering a few fossils.<\/p>\n

Loxter Ashbed Quarry 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>Wellington Heath, Herefordshire<\/p>\n

Access
\n<\/b>The site is on private land. Access available to groups by prior arrangement. Please email <\/a>or phone Mandy on 01531 634303 to arrange a visit.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Champions-Logo-Final1-300x249\"Geologi<\/b>cal Age
\n<\/b>Silurian – Aymestry Limestone Formation
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Rock Types
\n<\/b>Sedimentary – Limestone, shale<\/p>\n

Features
\n<\/strong>Anticlinal folding
\nArea structural geology setting
\nFossils<\/p>\n

Interpretation
\n<\/b>2 x Interpretation boards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Loxter Ashbed Quarry Champions Site<\/p>\n

Geological overview Loxter Ashbed is a disused limestone quarry. The geology of Loxter Ashbed Quarry dates to the Silurian period of time, approximately 422 million years ago. The rocks are limestones and belong to the Aymestry Limestone Formation. The site is a wonderful example of […]<\/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\/4414"}],"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=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}