Ketton Quarry – more finds

Posted on May 21, 2017

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Fifteenth century magico-medicinal minerals

Chris Duffin (UK) The Hortus Sanitatis (1491) On 23 June 1491, a new volume was printed and bound for distribution in the German University town of Mainz. The publisher was Jacob von Meydenbach, who might also have been responsible for compiling many of the entries in the book. The volume … Read More

Pathway to the past: A Miner’s Photograph

This photograph, taken around 1899, shows my ancestors posing at their modest frame home, where they lived one step away from Cripple Creek’s gold rush world of cardplayers, whisky drinkers, and midnight carousers. The scene depicts my great-grandfather (Robert Pickering Plews), my great-grandmother (Janet Plews), and two of their daughters … Read More

Book review: A Guide to Fossil Collecting on the South Dorset Coast, by Steve Snowball and Craig Chivers, with illustrations by Andreas Kurpisz

Just a couple of days before the Covid-19 lockdown, I was with friends at Tidmoor Point collecting wonderful pyrite ammonites from the Oxford Clay with this excellent guide to the South Dorset Coast.

Oyster shells as habitat: Encrusters and borings

Stephen K Donovan and Werner de Gier (The Netherlands) “The talk [between Nero Wolfe and Lon Cohen] had covered the state of the Union, the state of the feminine mind, whether any cooked oyster can be fit to eat, structural linguistics, and the prices of books” (Stout, 1975, p. 13). … Read More

Book review: Introducing Palaeontology: A Guide to Book review: Book review: Ancient Life (2nd ed), by Patrick N Wyse Jackson

I have written many admiring reviews of Dunedin’s books, and this is another one. OK – I like fossils, but it is always nice to have a brief but informative guide to the actual science behind one’s finds.

Book review: The Isle of Wight: Geologists’ Association Guide No. 60, by Andy Gale

Andy Gale’s update of his guide to the Isle of Wight (this is the sixth edition) is an important change to an already excellent geological guide. The Geologists’ Association has been updating several of its guides – using a modern format, and providing better colour pictures and diagrams – and this is another great example.

Book review: Classic Geology in Europe 9: The Western Highlands of Scotland, by Colin Gillen

I reviewed some excellent previous guides in this series (Classic Geology in Europe 3: Iceland in Issue 39 and Classic Geology in Europe 12: Almeria in Issue 48), but this one is closer to home and covers an area that I have fond memories of from my Munro-bagging days.

Book review: Scotland’s Mountain Landscapes: A Geomorphological Perspective, by Colin K Ballantyne

I love the Highlands of Scotland and I am proud to say that I have climbed many of the mountains covered in the glossy hardback. But, as I say in the other book review on this page, it is more than a picture book. It contains some excellent and fascinating science explaining their outstanding beauty.

Book review: Sedimentary Structures (4th Edition), by John Collinson and Nigel Mountney

‘Sedimentary Structures’ is definitely written for professional earth scientists (but also students and non-specialists from other subject areas, where an understanding of the origin and forms of structures in sediments and sedimentary rocks would be invaluable).

Book review: Introducing Stratigraphy, by Paul Lyle

This new guide in Dunedin’s ‘Introducing …’ range of books, covering the branch of geology that studies rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification), primarily in sedimentary rocks, but also layered igneous rocks.

UKAFH

UK Association of Fossil Hunters