In recent years, work by the Lickey Hills Geo-Champions has revealed exposures of an unconformity on Bilberry Hill and Rednal Hill. In both locations a strongly-cemented breccia, dominated by angular quartzite fragments, rests on the eroded surface of the Lickey … Continue reading →
In 2019 the surface impressions of worm burrows were found preserved on a bedding plane in the Eachway Lane Quarry. Until now, these trace fossils were the only evidence of life to have been identified in the Lickey Quartzite Formation. … Continue reading →
Rednal Hill Unconformity – SO 99705 75984 (+or- 7m in any direction) In the summer, Julie Schroder noticed a difference between two tiny exposures on the footpath on Rednal Hill. She suspected that the two lithologies were the same as … Continue reading →
Today’s clearance session was aimed at ensuring that last year’s progress was not lost to the insidious encroachment of the geologist’s nemesis…plant life. Weeding, bramble-bashing and litter collection maintained the visibility of the exposure, and pressure washing of one section … Continue reading →
About 25m along the footpath leading south from Eachway Lane lies an outcrop of quartzite breccia, which closely resembles the breccia seen on Bilberry Hill. Two geoconservation sessions were devoted to revealing more of the rock and to pressure washing … Continue reading →
In a previous posting, I suggested that the curvature of the bedding adjacent to the fault at the west end of Kendal End Quarry represented drag folding. In a recent clearance session the Geo-Champions excavated a trench along the face … Continue reading →
When I was first shown the Lickey Quartzite at the summit of Bilberry Hill, it seemed incongruous. Unlike the other exposures in this formation, much of the rock at this location was a poorly sorted monomict breccia of quartzite fragments … Continue reading →
The Lower Ordovician Lickey Quartzite is well-known for its lack of fossils. It is interpreted as a near-shore sand flat facies: as such it would have suffered bioturbation, wave agitation and twice-daily scouring by tidal currents. These processes, combined with … Continue reading →
Conservation work by the Lickey Geo-Champions continues to unearth evidence for the structural evolution of the Lickey Quartzite. However, one particular pair of structures has proven to be highly elusive. In The Geology of the Lickey Hills, William Boulton, who … Continue reading →
Ongoing geoconservation work in the quarries of the Lickey Hills continues to unearth evidence of the region’s enigmatic geological history. At the south east end of Barnt Green Road Quarry, the large-scale recumbent fold in the Lickey Quarzite is cut … Continue reading →
