{"id":4451,"date":"2015-12-11T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:17:12","slug":"castlemorton-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/castlemorton-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Castlemorton Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4226\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4226\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/castlemorton-common-the-gorse-indicates-an-acid-soil-the-poorer-soils-are-derived-from-outwash-from-the-malvern-hills-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Gorse on Castlemorton Common \" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/castlemorton-common-the-gorse-indicates-an-acid-soil-the-poorer-soils-are-derived-from-outwash-from-the-malvern-hills-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/castlemorton-common-the-gorse-indicates-an-acid-soil-the-poorer-soils-are-derived-from-outwash-from-the-malvern-hills-150x97.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/castlemorton-common-the-gorse-indicates-an-acid-soil-the-poorer-soils-are-derived-from-outwash-from-the-malvern-hills-400x258.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/castlemorton-common-the-gorse-indicates-an-acid-soil-the-poorer-soils-are-derived-from-outwash-from-the-malvern-hills.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gorse on Castlemorton Common<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geological overview <\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-canvas-width=\"210.63666666666668\">The free draining common owes it\u2019s presence due to the gravel which underlies it. These are fragments of rock that have been washed down from the Malvern Hills during summer melts in the Ice Age. The ground on the common was frozen, and the waters that flowed down would have deposited the material it carried on the surface.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-canvas-width=\"210.63666666666668\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-canvas-width=\"249.36\">In the banks of a stream, are Pleistocene Malvern Gravels containing pinkish Malvern granite and darker pebbles of volcanic rock from the hills above set in a finer matrix.<\/div>\n<p><b>Location<br \/>\n<\/b>Castlemorton, Worcestershire Grid Reference: SO 791 390<\/p>\n<p><b>Access<br \/>\n<\/b>Open access<\/p>\n<p><b>Geologi<\/b><b>cal Age<br \/>\n<\/b>Triassic<br \/>\nQuaternary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><br \/>\nFluvial processes<br \/>\nIncised channel<br \/>\nMeanders<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gorse on Castlemorton Common<\/p>\n<p>Geological overview <\/p>\n<p> The free draining common owes it\u2019s presence due to the gravel which underlies it. These are fragments of rock that have been washed down from the Malvern Hills during summer melts in the Ice Age. The ground on the common was frozen, and the waters [&#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\/4451"}],"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=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}