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| Bradford | Calderdale
| Kirklees | Wakefield
 STATUS: RIGS
OTHER DESIGNATIONS:
COUNTY: West Yorkshire
DISTRICT: Kirklees
OS GRID REF. SE 087 093
OS 1:50,000 Landranger 110 Sheffield and Huddersfield
OS 1:25,000 Explorer 288 Bradford and Huddersfield
BGS 1:50 000 SHEET 86 Glossop
FIRST DESIGNATED by West Yorkshire RIGS Group in 1996
DATE OF MOST RECENT SURVEY
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION produced by Ian Chisholm
SITE DESCRIPTION
Extensive exposures of Huddersfield White Rock are revealed in an abandoned
moorland quarry.
The 80m long exposure contains a 10m high section of White Rock with
underlying shale forming the lower slopes. Fallen blocks of rock containing
plant fossils can be seen on the quarry floor. The site illustrates the
relationship between Huddersfield White Rock and the overlying Rough
Rock forming West Nab.
 HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS:
A thick bed of ganister was found in the upper part of the Beacon Hill
Flags, which was exposed in these quarries and was still being worked
in the 1920s, according to the Huddersfield and Halifax memoir (1930)
p183 which is referred to below.
EDUCATIONAL VALUE:
AESTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS:
The quarry is located on open moorland beneath West Nab with extensive
views to the south and west.
ACCESS AND SAFETY:
Access is by footpath from Meltham. Upper slopes of the exposure are
vertical and hazardous.
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