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Dinton Quarry
Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dinton Quarry (grid reference SU006308) is a 3,000 square metre geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1990. This long-disused quarry of Middle Purbeck limestone was the main source of the late Jurassic fossil insects described by Brodie in 1845.
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- Natural England citation sheet for the site (accessed 24 March 2022)
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