Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton

Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search Suffolk
Grid reference TM 356 424[1]
Interest Geological
Area 0.7 hectares[1]
Notification 1988[1]
Location map Magic Map

Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton is a 0.7 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Alderton in Suffolk.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]

This fossiliferous site exposes rocks of the Red Crag Formation, with a megaripple sequence showing the gradual reduction in depth of the Red Crag sea.[4] The Red Crag is dated by some authorities to the early Pleistocene,[5] and by others to the Piacenzian, the last age of the preceding Pliocene.[6]

There is access to the site from Buckanay Lane.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Map of Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Buckanay Farm, Alderton (Neogene)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Allaby, Michael (2013). Oxford Dictionary of Geology & Earth Sciences (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 626. ISBN 978-0-19-965306-5.
  6. ↑ "Red Crag Formation". British Geological Survey. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
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