Sunday, 31 March 2013

Tufa eggs for Easter, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire

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Birds nest and eggs encrusted in tufa, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Photograph from the Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive'...
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Easter 1916, Bourton, Dorset. Geologists' Association Excursion.

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Geologists' Association Excursion Easter 1916 - a page from a GA photograph album. The image is a page from one of the many GA pho...
Saturday, 30 March 2013

Richard Cox Gough, 1826-1902, Proprietor of Gough's Cave, Somerset.

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Richard Cox Gough A now partially faded photograph of Richard Cox Gough from the Geologists' Association Carreck Archive. Gough wa...
Friday, 29 March 2013

Raising a block of Portland Stone from the Seacombe Quarry, Worth Maltravers, Dorset

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BGS image ID: P023962 Raising a block of Portland Stone from the Seacombe Quarry,  Worth Matravers, Dorset.  The block, cut from th...
Thursday, 28 March 2013

Frank Perret, 1867-1943. 1936 Royal Society Montserrat Expedition.

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BGS image ID: P536925 Frank A. Perret, 1867-1943. 1936 Royal Society Montserrat Expedition. Frank Perret started out as a electrical e...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Fairy Glen, Rosemarkie Glen, Ross & Cromarty

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BGS Image ID:  P000471 Fairy Glen, The Dens, 1.6 km. north of Fortrose, on the southern side of Rosemarkie Glen. Ross & Cromarty. ...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Hercules and his fig leaf

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   BGS image ID: P807851 This picture shows the fig leaf that used to be part of the statue of Hercules that is now at BGS Keyw...

La Soufrière, St Vincent, 1902

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  BGS image ID: P730640 This photograph captioned "East side of Soufrière, showing trees levelled by the blast" is part ...

Vesuvius eruption August 7th 1886 by H.J. Johnston-Lavis

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BGS image ID:  P640525 Vesuvius eruption August 7th 1886 by  H.J. Johnston-Lavis. Description below image reads: Instantaneous photo o...
Monday, 25 March 2013

Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. Sett-makers working in their individual huts, locally called scathies.

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BGS image ID: P000135 Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. Sett-makers working in their individual huts, locally called scathies. Two sett-m...