Doulting Railway Cutting
51°10′47″N 2°30′18″W / 51.17974°N 2.50496°W / 51.17974; -2.50496
Doulting Railway Cutting (grid reference ST648424) is a 2.8 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1971.
The cutting was made in the 1850s for the East Somerset Railway which still runs steam trains through the cutting today.
It shows rocks of the Middle Jurassic period including both the Inferior Oolite/Great Oolite Junction and the Bajocian-Bathonian stage boundary.
Sources
- English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 7 August 2006)
External links
- English Nature website (SSSI information)
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Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
- Ben Knowle
- Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast
- Brean Down
- Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins
- Bruton Railway Cutting
- Cheddar Complex
- Cloford Quarry
- Cook's Wood Quarry
- Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill
- Doulting Railway Cutting
- Emborough Quarries
- Glenthorne
- Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting
- Greylake
- Ham Hill
- Hobbs Quarry
- Holwell Quarries
- Hurcott Farm
- Hurcott Lane Cutting
- Lamb Leer
- Langport Railway Cutting
- Laycock Railway Cutting
- Leighton Road Cutting
- Low Ham
- Maes Down
- Maesbury Railway Cutting
- Miller's Hill, Milborne Wick
- Moon's Hill Quarry
- Priddy Caves
- Priddy Pools
- Rodney Stoke SSSI
- Sandpit Hole and Bishop's Lot
- Seavington St Mary
- Shepton Montague Railway Cutting
- Snowdon Hill Quarry
- St. Dunstan's Well Catchment
- Thrupe Lane Swallet
- Vallis Vale
- Viaduct Quarry
- Windsor Hill Quarry
- Wookey Hole
- Wookey Station
- Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl
- Avon
- Devon
- Dorset
- Wiltshire
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