User:Drnickm/sandbox

The current Geography section is correct only for a very limited area of the parish. Can I suggest the alternative below?

Geography
The rocks underlying Burnett Village and the immediately surrounding fields are the limestones and shales of the Lias Group. The village itself is underlain by Blue Lias limestones, while the White Lias is found in the fields to the immediate south and west. A prominent Fault system runs approximately east-west just to the north of the village (an extension of the Newton fault, ), and the two rises on Burnett Hill (B3116) represent the eroded scarps of two branches of this fault. In contrast, the steady include of the B116 from Burnett south to the Two Headed Man juntion with the A39 represents the geological dip of the top of the Blue Lias.

The steep slope marking the edge of the Chew Valley, immediately west of Burnett village, is an erosional scarp through the softer red and green shales of the Triassic Mercia Mudstone.

The fields in the bottom of the valley, north of the Burnett Fault, are underlain by the Supra- Pennant Measures of the Carboniferous period, represented by the Pensford Syncline coal basin, which formed part of the Somerset coalfield. It is a complex formation containing coal seams and is made up of clay and shales. Coal was locally worked near Burnett in the past. South of the fault, towards Compton Dando, the red colour of the fields suggests that the valley is underlain by the Mercia Mudstone. In the floodplain of the river there are alluvial deposits of clay soils.