Field Trip: Fossil collecting expedition to the Lafarge Kimmeridge Clay Pit and Chalk Pit at Westbury, Wiltshire
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Entry Fee
Members: Free
Visitors: £3.00
Date and Time
10:30
Location
The Lafarge Cement Works, Rhoose, Barry, CF62 3ZR
Field Trip Description
AM: The Kimmeridge Clay quarry at Westbury, Wiltshire is renowned for its fossil marine vertebrates, including the remains of pliosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and crocodiles, as well as numerous invertebrate fossils.
PM: The Chalk quarry will be visited in the afternoon, where the fossiliferous Lower, Middle and Upper Chalk is exposed. An interpretation board has recently been installed on the edge of the quarry. This initiative was coordinated by the Wiltshire RIGS Group and supported by various grant-giving organisations including Bath Geological Society. Substantial funding was provided by Lafarge.
Meet at 10.30am at the visitors’ car park, Lafarge Cement Works, close to the Clay Quarry, Westbury, Wiltshire.
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