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Highley Sandstone Cutting

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Highley Sandstone Cutting

Name: Highley Sandstone Cutting
Rating: 2

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Location: Highley, West Midlands Region, England, United Kingdom

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1. Highley and Alveley Footbridge – Highley Railway Station loop from Highley

11.8km

03:06

110m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Highley and Alveley Footbridge – Highley Railway Station loop from Upper Arley

11.2km

02:56

80m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Severn Valley Country Park – Highley Railway Station loop from Alveley

4.73km

01:18

80m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Sasha Taylor

October 9, 2022

The cutting is through beds of Highley Sandstone. They were deposited in the river channels on swampy deltas 310 million years ago. Their characteristic grey-green tinge indicates deposition in oxygen-poor conditions of a humid swamp. This is in contrast to the red Alveley Sandstone, seen earlier, formed in the oxygen-rich environment of a semi-arid desert.

The pronounced 'bedding planes' running almost horizontally across the rock face, represent breaks in deposition. 'Cross-bedded' or 'current-bedded' layers are inclined at angles to each other.

This cross cutting relationship is a result of
changing directions in the river current that deposited the sediments, in the same way as changes in wind direction caused the dune-bedding seen in the Bridgnorth Sandstone

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Elevation 60 m

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Location: Highley, West Midlands Region, England, United Kingdom

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Highley Sandstone Cutting

1. Highley and Alveley Footbridge – Highley Railway Station loop from Highley

2. Highley and Alveley Footbridge – Highley Railway Station loop from Upper Arley

3. Severn Valley Country Park – Highley Railway Station loop from Alveley

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