Smarts Quarry
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Climate exposure
This is about exposure to a nationwide pressure this habitat type carries — not a verdict on this site's own management.
Coastal habitats are exposed to sea-level rise and storm erosion. Where hard sea defences sit behind them, there's nowhere landward to retreat to — a squeeze that keeps compressing the habitat no matter how well it's managed.
Geology & landscape
Mining / Industrial: Quarry · Rock Type: Quartzite
Landscape processes: Coastal
Description
Description Smarts Quarry presents a section in Namurian quartzite, and is principally of importance for the presence of abundant, bivalve produced, stellate feeding traces on a bedding surface. These appear to be unique in the Basal Grits of the Namurian in South Wales, and are of importance in indicating the type of depositional environment, which by comparison with modern examples suggests an estuarine rather than simple shoreline origin for these sediments. An important site for environmental studies in the Namurian. NID yw'r ddogfen hon yn fersiwn gyfreithiol derfynol ac mae wedi cael ei fformatio, ei diweddaru a'i golygu'n rhannol i'w defnyddio ar Wefan y Cyngor Cefn Gwlad. Ni ddylid defnyddio'r ddogfen hon yn unrhyw achos cyfreithiol, ymchwiliad cyhoeddus nac unrhyw apêl neu wrandawiad arall. Os byddwch angen copi cyfreithiol llawn o'r ddogfen, cysylltwch â'r Cyngor Cefn Gwlad yn ysgrifenedig os gwelwch yn dda.