Flooded Quarry
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Flooded Quarry by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
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Flooded Quarry
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 24 Feb 2018
The first edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map already shows this as a partly flooded former limestone quarry. There were several in the vicinity, exploiting pockets of the Burdiehouse Limestone, which formed 347 to 329 million years ago in shallow seas. See also Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.896384
Longitude
-3.450707