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Langport Railway Cutting

Coordinates: 51°02′29″N 2°49′07″W / 51.04128°N 2.81868°W / 51.04128; -2.81868
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Langport Railway Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Langport Railway Cutting is located in Somerset
Langport Railway Cutting
Location within Somerset
LocationSomerset
Grid referenceST427272
Coordinates51°02′29″N 2°49′07″W / 51.04128°N 2.81868°W / 51.04128; -2.81868
InterestGeological
Area0.5 hectares (0.0050 km2; 0.0019 sq mi)
Notification1992 (1992)
Natural England website

Langport Railway Cutting (grid reference ST427272) is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Langport in Somerset, England, notified in 1992. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

Gravels exposed at Langport Railway Cutting show scour-and-fill structures consistent with braided stream deposition. This site is of importance as one of the few permanently exposed localities for coldstage Pleistocene gravels in south Somerset and more particularly because it is the first site in Britain in which typical calcrete features have been recorded. As such it is of national significance and has considerable research potential.

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