Finds

Ketton Quarry Event – The Finds

Posted on April 27, 2017 Updated on April 28, 2017

UKAFH members and attendants made some stunning finds at Ketton Quarry. This one mile wide quarry yields a wide variety of fossils. First up, Andrew Marsh, shares his finds with us, including his TWO! rare asteracanthus teeth.

Some more finds by Alister and Ian Cruickshanks including a complete clypeus echinoid.

Leader Craig Chapman also found various fossil shells a clypeus echinoid and ammonite fragments.

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Recent finds

Posted on March 15, 2017 Updated on April 5, 2017

This enormous coprolite of a Hybodus shark from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, was found by Martin Curtis at the recent UKAFH hunt to Black Ven.

Lizzie Hingley found this lovely articulated vertebrae section (right) from an ichthyosaurus on the ledges under Black Ven on the UKAFH hunt to Lyme Regis.

Sam Caethoven found her first plesiosaur vertebra (below) on the ledges under Black Ven at Lyme Regis.

Vicky Smith’s son found this Stigmaria, part of the root system of a Carboniferous lycopod, on a Hampshire beach. It was possible washed up from a ship’s ballast, bound from a colliery.

A beautiful naulitus, found by Daniel Hogburn on the Isle of Sheppey

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Riccardo Levi-Setti: Experimental physicist and trilobite expert

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Thiepval Memorial

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The forgotten women in UK geoscience

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I approached this book with what turned out to be completely irrelevant preconceptions. I was very wrong. In fact, this is a little geological tour de force describing field locations and, what one reviewer described as “the logic of geology: how vanished land – and seascapes can be conjured back into existence from the raw rock record”.

Dinosaurs in La Rioja

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<i>Parabrontopodus</i>?

Rob Hope (France) Ahh, fossil footprints… simultaneously tantalising, evocative and enigmatic! Trace fossils of footprints are known throughout the world, including in the Jura Mountains of both France and Switzerland. Recently, near the tiny French village of Coisia, about 30km north of Geneva, a large slice of rock has revealed … Read More

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Book review: A Geological Field Guide to the Himalaya in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet, by Dr Daniel Clark-Lowes

This book has something of an aspirational, rather than practical, feel to it. However, there is no doubt – in my mind anyway – that it is the best book on the geology of the Himalaya I have read. It is written with a nice light touch, with some humour. And it covers far more than just geology – where appropriate, it includes history, especially about the exploration of the subcontinent, and Asian culture.

In the shadow of the Isle of Wight dinosaurs

Dr Steven C Sweetman (UK) Bones from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight in southern England have been at the forefront of dinosaur research since before the term ‘Dinosauria’ was invented the following is a summarhy of the significant events in terms of dinosaurs and the … Read More

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