Lulsgate Quarry

Lulsgate Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Shown within Somerset
Area of Search Avon
Grid reference ST516659
Coordinates 51°23′24″N 2°41′49″W / 51.39007°N 2.69698°W / 51.39007; -2.69698Coordinates: 51°23′24″N 2°41′49″W / 51.39007°N 2.69698°W / 51.39007; -2.69698
Interest Geological
Area 1.13 hectares (0.0113 km2; 0.0044 sq mi)
Notification 1997 (1997)
Natural England website

Lulsgate Quarry (grid reference ST516659) is a 1.13 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Felton, North Somerset, notified in 1997.

The site has an excellent exposure of an irregular unconformity surface lying between inclined Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) Black Rock limestones and flat-bedded Upper Triassic (Rhaetian) strata.[1]

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