The original source material for these web pages has been made available by the JNCC under the Open Government Licence 3.0. Full details in the JNCC Open Data Policy Smith, D.B. 1995. Marine Permian of England. Geological Conservation Review Series No. 8. JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 0412 61080 9.

Marine Permian of England

Contents

Acknowledgements

Access to the countryside

Preface

1 The Permian marine rocks of England geological setting

2 North-west England

Introduction

Barrowmouth Beach Section, Saltom Bay

3 North-east England (Durham Province)

Introduction

Trow Point (South Shields) to Whitburn Bay

Fulwell Hills Quarries (mainly Southwick Quarry)

Hylton Castle Cutting

Claxheugh Rock, Claxheugh (Ford) Cutting and Ford Quarry

Dawson's Plantation Quarry, Penshaw

Humbledon Hill Quarry

Tunstall Hills, Sunderland; Maiden Paps and the Tunstall Hills (Rock Cottage Exposure)

Tunstall Hills (south-east end) and Ryhope Cutting

Gilleylaw Plantation Quarry

Seaham

Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon

High Moorsley Quarry

Hawthorn Quarry

Horden Quarry

Blackhalls Rocks

Trimdon Grange Quarry

Raisby Quarries

4 North-east England (Yorkshire Province)

Introduction

River Ure Cliff, Ripon Parks

Quarry Moor

Newsome Bridge Quarry

Micklefield Quarry

South Elmsall Quarry

Bilham Quarry

Cadeby Quarry

Ashfield Brick-clay Pit, Conisborough

New Edlington Brick-clay Pit

Wood Lee Common, Maltby

References

Glossary

Index

Figures and tables

Tables