Halecombe
Halecombe is a limestone quarry near Leigh-on-Mendip on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.
The quarry exhibits pale to dark grey well-bedded
fissures and joints in the limestone with varying amounts of calcite mineralization and tufa growth around groundwater seepages.[2]
There are abundant shelly fossils and corals.
Quarrying activity was initiated at Halecombe at the time of the
Anglo American.[3]
The landscape provides several areas identified under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan including Lowland Meadow, Limestone Grassland and Species-rich Neutral Grassland.[4] The site is subject to its own Biodiversity Action Plan. Pans submitted in December 2011 provide for the provision of a water balancing lake.[5]
References
- ^ "Summary of Geo-diversity Audit: Halecombe Quarry" (PDF). Somerset County Council. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ^ "Halecombe Quarry Geodiversity". Somerset County Council. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2007.
- ^ "Halecombe Quarry, Leigh upon Mendip, Nr Frome" (PDF). Geodiversity Audit of Active Aggregate Quarries. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2007.
- ^ "Habitat survey of Halecombe Quarry". Somerset Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ^ "Our Plans". Tarmac. Retrieved 23 September 2012.