{"id":2007,"date":"2020-03-07T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2020-03-07T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T18:28:02","slug":"rubery-road-cutting-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/rubery-road-cutting-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubery Road Cutting Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2008\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200307_134149-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2008\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2008\" src=\"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200307_134149-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200307_134149-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200307_134149-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200307_134149-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200307_134149-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200307_134149-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of the Rubery Road Cutting after weeding and pressure washing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s clearance session was aimed at ensuring that last year&#8217;s progress was not lost to the insidious encroachment of the geologist&#8217;s nemesis&#8230;plant life. Weeding, bramble-bashing and litter collection maintained the visibility of the exposure, and pressure washing of one section made it easier to trace the unconformity with greater confidence and accuracy. The photo has been digitally enhanced to provide greater contrast between the Ordovician Lickey Quartzite and the overlying Silurian Rubery Sandstone. The sub-horizontal boundary between red rock and black staining records the upper limit of the pressure washed section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s clearance session was aimed at ensuring that last year&#8217;s progress was not lost to the insidious encroachment of the geologist&#8217;s nemesis&#8230;plant life. Weeding, bramble-bashing and litter collection maintained the visibility of the exposure, and pressure washing of one section <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/rubery-road-cutting-update\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lickeynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehtchampions.org.uk\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}