Английская Википедия:Cold Ash Quarry

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox SSSI Cold Ash Quarry is a Шаблон:Convert geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Newbury in Berkshire.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3][4]

The quarry is unique in Britain for the collection of fossil plants and insects which occur in a layer of silt and clay within the Reading Beds. The fossils date to about 60 million years ago. The fossil flora consists of well-preserved angiosperm leaves, in some of these fossils there is evidence of the activity of contemporary leaf-miner insects. This is the only location in Britain at which fossil leaf-miner activity have been discovered.[5]

The site is private land with no public access.

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