The area is important for its magnesian limestone grassland communities, which are largely confined to County Durham and increasingly scarce even there.
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The site is a working quarry in which is exposed a sequence of Lower Permian Yellow Sands overlying Marl Slate and Lower Magnesian Limestone.
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The underlying rock is magnesian limestone and this has had a strong influence in determining the range of plant and animal communities now found there.
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The foundations are concrete, atop which the tower extends having a rubble and mortar core between ashlar faced courses of small magnesian limestone blocks.
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In the southern part of its outcrop, the former'Lower Magnesian Limestone'is now referred to as the'Cadeby Formation '.
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In the north, the Lower Magnesian Limestone is now referred to as the Raisby Formation and the middle Magnesian Limestone as the Ford Formation.
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In the north, the Lower Magnesian Limestone is now referred to as the Raisby Formation and the middle Magnesian Limestone as the Ford Formation.
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The kiln lies at the base of the eastern of two north-northwest / south-southeast spine ridges of Tertiary silicified magnesian limestone.
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In the magnesian limestone belt to the east of the Leeds and Wakefield areas is an elevated ridge with smoothly rolling scenery, dissected by dry valleys.
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The present building is a two-storey construction of Magnesian limestone ashlar, with Welsh slate roof and brick chimney stacks and is Grade II * listed.
