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Chinnor Chalk Pit

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Chinnor, Flooded chalk quarry and SSSI geograph.org.uk 753155
Chinnor, Flooded chalk quarry and SSSI geograph.org.uk 753155

Chinnor Chalk Pit is a 20.4-hectare (50-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Chinnor in Oxfordshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.This site is described by Natural England as "important for its excellent exposures of Totternhoe Stone", dating to the mid-Cenomanian stage of the Cretaceous period, around 100 million years ago. It has yielded many fossils of ammonites from the Lower and Middle Chalk.

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Chinnor Chalk Pit
Chinnor Hill, South Oxfordshire

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N 51.691 ° E -0.906 °
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Chinnor Hill
OX39 4BA South Oxfordshire
England, United Kingdom
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