Watchet – Photo Gallery

Posted on March 9, 2014 Updated on April 27, 2017

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Encrinus liliiformis – a crinoid from the Triassic that made a career for itself

Animals – not plants Despite their common name ‘sea lilies’, crinoids are animals but not plants, although they look like a flower (Fig. 1). They are related to the sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish, […]

From pencils to programming and graphene: graphite’s role in the transmission of knowledge

Once a mystery substance thought to be a type of lead, graphite is now one of the most vital components in the ever-expanding world of complex electronics. But this ‘mineral of extremes’ is more than […]

Caught between two mass extinctions – the rise and fall of Dicroidium

In the aftermath of Earth’s greatest biotic crisis 251.9 million years ago – the end-Permian mass extinction – a group of plants arose that would come to dominate the flora of the Southern Hemisphere. Recovery […]

Akal Wood Fossil Park, Rajasthan, India

The Akal Wood Fossil Park is located about 18km from the desert city of Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, India. It has preserved fossil evidence dating back to the Jurassic Period (Fig. 6) indicating a hot and […]

A shining hill in the Arizona desert

In the area east of the small community of Bagdad and on the northeast edge of the Arrastra Mountain Wilderness of central Arizona in the USA, my friends, Terril, Yvette and David, stood with me […]

Urban geology: productid brachiopods in Amsterdam and Utrecht

The most obvious manifestations of geological materials in the urban environment are building and facing stones, and similar rocks used in street furniture, such as kerbstones. As a Londoner, SKD was impressed as a boy […]

The very down-to-earth Vasquez rocks portray the surface of alien planets for the media

They have become associated with stark alien or other-dimensional landscapes since the 1960s, when the popular American television programme Star Trek used them as dramatic backdrops in two episodes, “Arena” and “Friday’s Child”. Prior to […]

The mystery of Genevieve: the Golden Dinosaur from the depths of the London Mine

The legend of “Genevieve”, a fossilised dinosaur not only made of stone — but also of gold — began on 3 July 1932. That was the day WK Jewett, owner of the London Mine near […]

Jesse’s Jaunts: New Zealand North Island – Part 1

Auckland and the AVF In a thick brain fog, crusty eyed and yawning, I sat up in bed at 4:30 am. I was in Auckland, New Zealand. It was still dark outside when I drove […]

How to recognise a pistol shrimp in the fossil record

Alpheid shrimps, colloquially referred to as “pistol shrimps”, exhibit a remarkable anatomical adaptation. These tiny marine crustaceans use their enlarged and highly modified claw to ‘shoot’ at their prey – hence their name. It is […]

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