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Photograph by Roger Smith.
Caught to light,identified and
named by Adrian Miles.
Returned to the wild.
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The area of the Oswestry coalfield is very interesting geologically. The rocks underlying the area were formed over 300 million years ago. Tropic...
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This print from 1863 shows a gentleman standing next to the stump of a fossilised tree in the coal measures at Coalbrookdale. Coal is the remains ...
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Mechanical means are being used here to clear the vegetation from the exposure of rocks here at Ludford Lane Corner near Ludlow. Some exposures li...
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This site is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest but not for this grassland or it's anthills. Exposures of rock are found here that...
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Behind the trees can be seen an exposure of Wenlock Limestone which is sure to contain fossils of marine life. Photographed by National Trust, Shr...
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It is possible to walk to Knowle Quarry which is on Wenlock Edge and now managed by the National Trust. Tree seedlings readily take hold on the cl...
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This volunteer is not fossil hunting but weeding. The rock face at Knowle Quarry is kept clear of tree seedlings to stop it disappearing under thic...
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Exposures of rock at Ludford Lane Corner near Ludlow are very important in the study of geology. They are particularly well known for the fossils o...
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Not as in scared but as in preserved! Trees that used to grow on Whixall died as it became wetter and more bog mosses grew. The mosses eventually ...
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These tree stumps are older than they look. The trees died and were buried in peat moss at the end of the last ice age but did not rot because of ...
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This quarry is well known by geologists as a good place to find fossils of a group of sea shells known as Brachiopods. The speciality of this quar...
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