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Fossils, Rocks, Crystals and Minerals. Genuine specimens from around the World,

 Charmouth, England
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Would you have walked past these pebbles? A closer look reveals fossil details hiding in plain sight on Clevedon's foreshore. Small finds are worth slowing down for. Clevedon, North Somerset | UK Fossils Road Tour Our location guide, including access a… instagr.am/p/DdwhcwpDV_9/
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A fossil tooth… or something else? A closer look through the hand lens revealed a fragment of fish bone. Tiny finds can tell a different story when you look closely! Filmed at Clevedon, North Somerset, on the UK Fossils Road Tour. Explore our Clevedon… instagr.am/p/DdvqhdcAeOr/
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The lost lakes of Britain (Part 2): The ‘parallel roads’ of Glen Roy – a vanished Ice Age lake system ift.tt/INYTz3k

The lost lakes of Britain (Part 2): The ‘parallel roads’ of Glen Roy – a vanished Ice Age lake...

In Part 1, we reconstructed the long-lived Devonian lakes of the Orcadian Basin from their sedimentary record. Here, we turn to a much more recent and far more fleeting landscape. At the end of the…

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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 6): Isotelus maximus – one of the giants of the trilobite world ift.tt/f5gQXO2

The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 6): Isotelus maximus – one of the giants of the...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the sixth in my series of short articles on fossils of the Ordovician. Trilobites reached their zenith in diversity during the Ordovician, but few species are as impressi…

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Geology museums of Britain: The Rotunda Museum, Scarborough ift.tt/D9VWGmF

Geology museums of Britain: The Rotunda Museum, Scarborough

Jon Trevelyan (UK) A museum unlike any other Perched above Scarborough’s South Bay, the Rotunda Museum occupies a unique place in the history of geology (Fig. 1). Opened in 1829, it is one of the w…

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Don’t believe everything you read: Beachcombing at Easington, County Durham ift.tt/2Bp5DZP

Don’t believe everything you read: Beachcombing at Easington, County Durham

Stephen K. Donovan (UK) One of the first volumes that I bought when I first took up palaeontology over 50 years ago was the very excellent Directory of British Fossiliferous Localities (Arkell et a…

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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 5): Flexicalymene meeki – the classic enrolled trilobite ift.tt/bwtQfUx

The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 5): Flexicalymene meeki – the classic enrolled...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the fifth in my series of short articles on fossils of the Ordovician. If one fossil trilobite has achieved near-universal recognition among collectors, it is Flexicalyme…

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Geology museums of Britain: Grime’s Graves – ancient mining and the stone beneath the Chalk ift.tt/cwP7RMd

Geology museums of Britain: Grime’s Graves – ancient mining and the stone beneath the Chalk

Jon Trevelyan (UK) A landscape full of holes Grime’s Graves does not announce itself with the drama of a great cliff, cave or quarry. On a low Chalk ridge in the Breckland of Norfolk, the most imme…

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The lost lakes of Britain (Part 1): The Orcadian lakes – reconstructing Scotland’s lost Devonian world ift.tt/P8dkuyv

The lost lakes of Britain (Part 1): The Orcadian lakes – reconstructing Scotland’s lost Devonian...

This is the first of a three-part series exploring Britain’s lost lakes – landscapes that once existed across very different timescales, from the Devonian world of the Orcadian Basin to the f…

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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 4): Echinosphaerites aurantium – the grapefruit-shaped cystoid ift.tt/pCKMqZN

The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 4): Echinosphaerites aurantium – the grapefruit-s...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the fourth in my series of short articles on fossils of the Ordovician. Among the diverse and often bizarre echinoderms that flourished during this period, Echinosphaerit…

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Geology museums of Britain: Cromer Museum, the West Runton Mammoth and the Cromer Forest-bed Formation ift.tt/YLw6c5y

Geology museums of Britain: Cromer Museum, the West Runton Mammoth and the Cromer Forest-bed...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) Fig. 1. Reconstruction of the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) in the temperate river valley environment represented by the West Runton Freshwater Bed, approximately 700,0…

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The lost rainforest of the West Cumberland Coalfield (Part 4): After the drowning – the roof-shale succession ift.tt/KJpjB9Z

The lost rainforest of the West Cumberland Coalfield (Part 4): After the drowning – the roof-shale...

Every coal seam in the West Cumberland Coalfield district records the accumulation of peat in a mature lycopsid swamp. But just as revealing as the coal itself is what lies immediately above it …

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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 3): Early pterygotids – precursors to the giant sea scorpions ift.tt/DApqI5Y

The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 3): Early pterygotids – precursors to the giant sea...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the third in my series of short articles on fossils of the Ordovician. Although the famous Pterygotus of Silurian and Devonian fame had not yet reached their iconic size …

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Geology museums of Britain: The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Part 2) – Big Pit, Blaenavon, Monmouthshire ift.tt/dhyBlw1

Geology museums of Britain: The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Part 2) – Big Pit, Blaenavon,...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) Rising above the hills near the town of Blaenavon is the distinctive headgear of Big Pit, one of the most recognisable symbols of the South Wales Coalfield (Fig. 1). Today, the s…

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The Smithsonian National Zoo’s own geological feature ift.tt/cmQ9ETH

The Smithsonian National Zoo’s own geological feature

Deborah Painter (USA) There is a fault zone that trends southwest to northeast from Stafford County, Virginia USA and joins a fault that extends through the capital of the United States. It is a hi…

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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 2): Didymograptus murchisoni – a classic marker of the Middle Ordovician ift.tt/jifFbxI

The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 2): Didymograptus murchisoni – a classic marker of...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the second in my series of short articles on fossils of the Ordovician. Among the many colonial organisms that chart the course of Ordovician seas, Didymograptus murchiso…

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Geology museums of Britain: The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Part 1) – the Iron Works, Blaenavon, Monmouthshire ift.tt/pTcB8y9

Geology museums of Britain: The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Part 1) – the Iron Works, Blaenav...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) The ruined furnaces of Blaenavon rise unexpectedly from the Welsh hillsides like the remains of some vast industrial fortress. Massive retaining walls, towering masonry structure…

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Going green: Chloritized tuffs from the Oligocene of Antigua ift.tt/cFsZ3e7

Going green: Chloritized tuffs from the Oligocene of Antigua

Trevor A Jackson (Trinidad) and Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) The Caribbean island of Antigua lies towards the northern end of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc. In this particular region, it …

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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 1): Climacograptus wilsoni – a slender sentinel of the Scottish Ordovician ift.tt/Z7rgRBW

The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 1): Climacograptus wilsoni – a slender sentinel of...

Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the first in my series of short articles on fossils of the Ordovician. Among the many graptolites recovered from the classic Dob’s Linn section of the Southern Uplands, C…

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Geology museums of Britain: Keswick Museum, Cumbria ift.tt/xV9lDZy

Geology museums of Britain: Keswick Museum, Cumbria

Jon Trevelyan (UK) Keswick Museum is not a geology museum in any conventional sense. There are no long stratigraphic runs of specimens, no systematic mineral displays, and no attempt to present geo…

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