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Ardley Cutting and Quarry is a 40.1-hectare (99-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Bicester in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site [3] and an area of 11 hectares (27 acres) is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust as Ardley Wood Quarry. [4]
The limestone quarry at Ardley has yielded a significant find of dinosaur tracks , discovered in 1997 and thought to have been left by Megalosaurus and possibly Cetiosaurus. Some of these are on display in the dinosaur garden at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
Lyehill Quarry: 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres) [159] NO Oxford 159] GCR [160] Map: Citation: This disused quarry exposes rocks dating to the Wheatley Limestone member of the Stanford Formation, approximately 160 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic. The deposits are limestones in an unstable reef substrate, and the only fossils are of oysters.
Scientists have found the U.K.’s largest dinosaur footprint site ever.. The tracks were discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire — about 60 miles northwest of London — by quarry employee Gary ...
The UK’s biggest ever dinosaur trackway that is over 166 million years old has been discovered in an Oxfordshire quarry.. A worker at Dewards Farm Quarry spotted the 200 footprints while he was ...
Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
Ardley Trackways is a 63.6-hectare (157-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Bicester in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
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