Lavernock, Images from the BAAS Collection

BGS image ID: P232603

Sections of Penarth Beds, etc., from Penarth Head to Lavernock. 1892. Photograph by C.J. Watson. From the British Association for the Advancement of Science photograph collection.

BGS image ID: P239939

Lavernock Point. Lower Lias and Rhaetic shale. 1901. Photograph by S.H. Reynolds. From the British Association for the Advancement of Science photograph collection.

Bob McIntosh

Eruption of Etna, August 1892

BGS image: P711317

The eruption of Mount Etna has been in the news recently, and here is a photograph of the eruption on the flank of Etna 9th August 1892, 120 years ago. This was one of a series from July to September 1892 that gave rise to the Monti Silvestri crater row. 

Presented by Professor G. Platania of Aci Reale, Sicily. Photograph held in the BGS Archives, Keyworth. Archive reference GSM/GX/Pa/1.

Bob McIntosh