Burrells Quarry
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Condition (Natural England)
| Unit | Feature | Condition | Area (ha) | Assessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NY676180 | — | Favourable | 0.71 | 2020-02-12 |
Geology & landscape
Mining / Industrial: Quarry · Geological Period: Carboniferous, Permian
Landscape processes: Fluvial
Description
Area, 0.63 hectares 1.5 ac Description Burrells Quarry lies two kilometres south of Appleby in Westmorland and offers one of the finest exposures of the Lower Permian Penrith Brockram. This is stratigraphically the lowest of the Vale of Eden brockrams; it rests unconformably on Carboniferous sandstones and limestones. The main facies consists of tabular sheets of fine to very coarse breccias which are usually less than one metre thick. The breccias frequently show trough cross bedding and were-deposited by sheet flood processes on an alluvial fan. At Burrells the cross bedding indicates a transport direction consistently towards the north east. This is a well known locality for studies of the coarse basal Permian sediments of Cumbria.