Raisby Hill Quarry

Raisby Hill Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Country	England
Region	North East
District	County Durham

Location	NZ342353
- coordinates	GB-ENG 54°42′43″N 1°28′12″W / 54.71194°N 1.47000°W / 54.71194; -1.47000Coordinates: GB-ENG 54°42′43″N 1°28′12″W / 54.71194°N 1.47000°W / 54.71194; -1.47000

Area	52.42 ha (129.53 acres)

Notification	1957
Management	Natural England

Area of Search	County Durham
Interest	Geological

Location of Raisby Hill Quarry SSSI, Co Durham
Website: Map of site

Raisby Hill Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in east County Durham, England. It lies just under 2 km east of the village of Coxhoe.

The site is a working quarry and has been designated as of national importance in the Geological Conservation Review. Until 1984, the site included most of the area that now forms the Raisby Hill Grassland SSSI.^[1]

The quarry exposes a section through the Marl Slate and the Ford and Raisby Formations of the Upper Permian. It is the type locality for the Raisby Formation, a carbonate unit of the English Zechstein sequence.^[1] The exposed sequence commences with the Yellow Sands, which are overlain by the Marl Slate and some 200 feet of calcareous and dolomitic limestones.^[2]

References

1 2 "Raisby Hill Quarry" (PDF). English Nature. 1991. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
↑ "Reports of Field Meetings for 1947". Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 27 (4): 301–306. June 1949. doi:10.1144/pygs.27.4.301.

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Neighbouring areas Cleveland Northumberland Tyne and Wear

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