Laycock Railway Cutting

Infobox SSSI


name=Laycock Railway Cutting
aos=Somerset
interest=Geological
gridref=gbmappingsmall|ST678213
area=1.3 hectare
notifydate=1993

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Laycock Railway Cutting (gbmapping|ST678213) is a 1.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1993. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

Laycock Railway Cutting is the best single exposure of the Bathonian ’Fuller's Earth Rock’ in South Somerset. Ammonites indicating the Morrisi and Subcontractus zones of the Middle Bathonian are frequent. Ammonites are generallyextremely rare at this level in Britain and their presence at Laycock is of international stratigraphic importance.The combination of features of both litho- and chrono-stratigraphical importance make Laycock Railway Cutting a key British Bathonian locality.

ource

* [http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000878.pdf English Nature citation sheet for the site] (accessed 10 August 2006)

External links

* [http://www.english-nature.org.uk English Nature website] (SSSI information)