Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting is a 0.8 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Pitcombe in Somerset, notified in 1971.
Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting
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Oolite or oölite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of diameter 0.25–2 millimetres; rocks composed of ooids lar
Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting
…hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Pitcombe in Somerset, notified in 1971. This is an important locality for study of the Inferior Oolite limestones, of Middle Jurassic age, laid down in a warm shallow sea some 175 million years ago. The site is unique in that the limestones seen here are…
Modern ooids from a beach on Joulter Cays, The Bahamas, with 0.5 mm scale
Ooids on the surface of a limestone; Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic) of southern Utah
Thin-section of calcitic ooids from an oolite within the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic) of southern Utah