Barns Batch Spinney
Notification 1987 | | |
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Barns Batch Spinney (
notified
in 1987.
The English Nature citation says that Barns Batch Spinney is important because of the exposures which it provides of the lower part of the classic Inferior Oolite limestone sequence of the Dundry area. It shows rocks lying stratigraphically below the Middle and Upper Inferior Oolite Limestones seen at Dundry Main Road South Quarry.[1]
The geology at this site provides a section spanning the division of the
ammonite Hyperlioceras discites. This is one of the thickest sequences in Britain and may be used as the basis for defining these new subzones.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Barns Batch Spinney" (PDF). English Nature. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.