Burrator Quarries (SSSI)
Location and Access Information
Grid Reference: SX 549677
Burrator Quarries lie 3km east of Yelverton on the southwestern edge of Dartmoor. The site comprises two small disused roadside quarries. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and forms part of a geology/landform trail around the Burrator area. Contact Dartmoor National Park Authority, Tel. 01822 890459 for details.
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Geological Interest
These disused quarries provide rare exposures of the contact between the Dartmoor Granite and Devonian country rocks of the Kate Brook Formation. The contact is highly irregular and provides evidence, in the form of the minerals within the rocks, of how the country rocks were metamorphosed by the high temperatures during the emplacement of the granite.
