Moon's Hill Quarry
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Moon's Hill Quarry is a 3.42 hectare
geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Stoke St Michael
in Somerset
, notified in 1996 and is a Geological Conservation Review
site.
The quarry
covers some 240 acre (0.9712464 km²), and is operated by John Wainwright & Co Ltd which purchased it in 1897 and has operated it continuously ever since. The quarry produces Basalt
Aggregate known as hardstone and is used for the surface course, the top layer of the road surface.
Hectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Stoke St Michael
Stoke St Michael
Stoke St Michael is a village and civil parish on the Mendip Hills north east of Shepton Mallet, and west of Frome, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England.-History:...
in Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, notified in 1996 and is a Geological Conservation Review
Geological Conservation Review
The Geological Conservation Review is produced by the UK's Joint Nature Conservation Committee and is designed to identify those sites of national and international importance needed to show all the key scientific elements of the geological and geomorphological features of Britain...
site.
The quarry
Quarry
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, and gravel. They are often collocated with concrete and asphalt plants due to the requirement...
covers some 240 acre (0.9712464 km²), and is operated by John Wainwright & Co Ltd which purchased it in 1897 and has operated it continuously ever since. The quarry produces Basalt
Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...
Aggregate known as hardstone and is used for the surface course, the top layer of the road surface.