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4 unusual facts about Corallian Limestone


Corallian Limestone

The outcrop known as Headington stone was quarried at Headington Quarry on the outskirts of Oxford and used for many of the historic University buildings there.

The most noted scholar of the Corallian strata of England was the geologist W.J. Arkell (1904–1958).

Hambleton Hills

The hills are made up of rocks of middle and late Jurassic age with the hard Corallian Limestone forming the cap at the highest points.

Kirkdale, North Yorkshire

Corallian Limestone which outcrops on the hills surrounding the Vale of Pickering runs across the region, and this appears as an aquifer in Kirkdale swallowing most of the water from Hodge Beck, which reappears further downstream.



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