Whatley Quarry

Whatley Quarry

Whatley Quarry, gbmapping|ST731479 is a limestone quarry near the village of Whatley on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.

The quarry exhibits pale to dark grey Carboniferous Limestone with small area of overlying horizontally bedded buff-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone forming an angular unconformity, with extensive dolomitisation of top of the Black Rock Limestone. There are abundant near-vertical fissures and joints near top of limestone with karst weathering and minor pinnacle formation. [cite web | title=Whatley Quarry Geodiversity | url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/ete/countryside/geodiversity/index.cfm?override=subtopic&infoid=4652 | work=Somerset County Council | accessdate=2007-02-02]

The quarry is owned by Hanson plc and is linked by a freight only railway line (used by trains operated by Mendip Rail) to a junction with the Reading to Plymouth line at a junction near Frome station.

The quarry has been the object of protests against its impact on the environment and has had to appeal against planning application decisions because of the claimed derogation of river flows, groundwater abstractions and localsprings due to historic dewatering associated with the quarry. [cite web | title=Whatley Quarry ARC (Now Hanson) | url=http://www.entecuk.com/downloads/pp_003.pdf | accessdate=2007-02-02]

Hanson runs a study centre for school children close to the quarry. [cite web | title=Study Centre | url=http://www.hanson.co.uk/Responsibility/communityandeducation/eastmendip.html | accessdate=2007-02-02]

References

See also

* Quarries of the Mendip Hills


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