{"id":4440,"date":"2015-12-11T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:18:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:18:49","slug":"whitmans-hill-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/whitmans-hill-quarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitman\u2019s Hill Quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whitmans Hill Quarry Champions Site<\/p><\/div>\n

Geological overview
\n<\/b>Whitman’s Hill quarry is a large disused quarry to the North of the Malvern Hills, leased by Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust. The geology of Whitman\u2019s Hill Quarry dates to the Silurian period of time, approximately 428 million years ago. The rock types include limestones, siltstones and volcanic ash layers known as bentonites. The interesting rock formations and the abundance of fossils \u2013 mainly corals, brachiopods, trilobites, crinoids, algae and bryozoans makes the site popular with geologists, amateurs, children and adults. An accessible fossil collecting area has been created at the quarry, as well as leaflets for visitors, outlining the geology and wildlife of the site and its quarrying history.<\/p>\n

Whitman’s Hill 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.Location
\n<\/b>Storridge, Herefordshire<\/p>\n

Access
\n<\/b>The site is on private land. To arrange a visit please contact<\/a> the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust.
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\"Champions-Logo-Final1-300x249\"<\/a>Geologi<\/b>cal Age
\n<\/b>Silurian – Much Wenlock Limestone Formation; Coalbrookdale Formation
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Rock Types
\n<\/b>Sedimentary – Limestone, shale, siltstone, mudstone, volcanic ash (bentonite)<\/p>\n

Features
\n<\/strong>Sedimentary structures
\nFolding
\nBioherm
\nFossils
\nStratigraphic sequencing<\/p>\n

Interpretation
\n<\/b>Geology, history and wildlife leaflets
\nGuided & educational visits
\nSchool visits
\nWhitman’s Hill Geodiveristy<\/a> website – educational material, fossil gallery, virtual tour and 3D terrain model<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Whitmans Hill Quarry Champions Site<\/p>\n

Geological overview Whitman’s Hill quarry is a large disused quarry to the North of the Malvern Hills, leased by Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust. The geology of Whitman\u2019s Hill Quarry dates to the Silurian period of time, approximately 428 million years ago. The rock […]<\/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\/4440"}],"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=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6504,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions\/6504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}