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San Eduardo is a small beach near Miramar, Argentina. With the tripod just over the ocean I took a photograph of the cliffs behind me. The 180 degrees view once assembled looks like an island but that's only a perspective effect. The cliffs are full of fossils, you can try to search for bones and other structures, I do...
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Sidmouth Museum's geology display tells the whole Jurassic Coast story but with a focus on the rare fossil reptile and amphibian bones found on the beaches either side of the town. These animals lived on the banks of branching or braided rivers than once flowed through the Triassic desert about 230 million years ago. W...
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This flat surface is a bedding plain within the Inferior Oolite in Dorset that was exposed by quarrying. The surface was created by erosion during the deposition of the rock 180 million years ago when a semi-hardened bed containing fossils was striopped back before the next layer of limestone was deposited. Some of the...
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the abandoned Kingbarrow quarry on Portland is managed as a nature reserve by Dorset Wildlife Trust. This bench in the south west corner of the quarry has several nice examples of algal burrs from the layer a tthe base of the Purbeck Beds known as the Fossil Forest. Each of these structures would have formed arround th...
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View of the hills of Shuwayhat, an island just off the Abu Dhabi mainland. All these sediments are ancient river beds that are producing fossils of extinct forms of crocodiles, hippopotamus, monkeys, rhinos, antelopes, elephants, and other beasts. They are about 7 million years old and show that the Arabian desert has ...
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Many lichens in this Allee are destroyed by Marchandiobasidium aurantiacum and several other Lichen parasites.
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Named for Bob Linsley, beloved long-time professor of paleontology at Colgate, the geology museum is located in the new Ho Science Center.
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A block 65cm by 45cm containing numerous fossil brittle starfish (too many to count) and some complete crinoids together with broken crinoid and starfish debris. This block contains a complex story about one point in time during the early part of the Jurassic, about 185 million years ago, when this part of the world w...
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This tiny island is of course the site of the headquarters of the well-known International Rescue, but a little-known geographical feature of the Dorset Coast in the UK. The beach is one of the most fossiliferous coastal sites in England. If you have sharp eyes you may* just be able to make out cmlbath fossil-hunting a...
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When Honiton was bypassed in the 1960's, the excavation for the road uncovered the bones of the 'Honiton Hippo' and other animals that lived during a warm period in the Ice Age about 125,000 years ago. This display was put together with funding from the Heritage Lottery 'Collecting Cultures' fund, together with Devo...
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