Field Trip: Pen Hill (near Wells)
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Entry Fee
Members: Free
Visitors: £3.00
Date and Time
Location
Will be provided on registration
Field Trip Description
A (~ 4km) walk around the southern slopes of Pen Hill where there are rocks from four geological periods – Devonian, Carboniferous, Triassic and Jurassic.
To register please email Bob Mustow at [email protected]
There is an old quarry in a private garden with outcrops of the CDL showing a bed with an erosive base and another bed with probable stromatolite/algal mats. We will also see a narrow gulley showing red Mercia mudstone overlain by a thin green mudstone layer (Blue Anchor?) and then into Triassic lsts (White Lias). Further up the track is another quarry but this time in a Blue Lias sequence. Not many places to see this transition in the Mendips.
At the start there is a very nice valley (called The Combe and owned by large house Milton Lodge). There are some Triassic conglomerates exposed in upper part of the valley.
One negative point, the group would have to cross the trunk road (A39) three times where there is no speed restriction!
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