Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Telegram announcing the discovery of 'Swanscombe Man'

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BGS image ID: P827762 This telegram from June 1935 announced the discovery of the first skull fragment of what would become known as ...

Garnets from the BGS collections

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BGS image ID:   P704670 SILEX granatus. Garnet. Plate no. 44. From: Sowerby, James. 1802-1817. British Mineralogy: Or Coloured figures i...
Monday, 3 June 2013

General Strike 1926: Cleaning staff of the British Gazette

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BGS image ID: P827761 During the General Strike of 1926 the government set up a newspaper called the British Gazette . This photo...

Lulworth Cove, Geologists' Association Swanage Excursion, May 14th 1910.

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BGS image :ID P805970 Geologists' Association Swanage Excursion, May 14th 1910.  Here the GA members travel by steamer. Disembarking...
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Sunday, 2 June 2013

Drummond Hill, sketches in field notebook, Henry Mowbray Cadell, 1883.

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BGS image ID: P680476 Drummond Hill, section No 1. Section on road along south side of Drummond Hill 1 and three-quarter miles west from...
Saturday, 1 June 2013

Geologists' Association Excursion to Hastings, June 22nd 1907. The Strade.

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Geologists' Association Excursion to Hastings, June 22nd 1907. The Strade. A modern pebble beach showing the ridge formed by high tide...
Friday, 31 May 2013

Samples from horizontal sections published by the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Samples from horizontal sections published by the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. The sections were all hand-...
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Thursday, 30 May 2013

Macropoma a late Cretaceous fossil coelocanth. GSM109036

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BGS image ID: P549485 Macropoma, a coelocanth from the late Cretaceous. Specimen GSM109036.  Lobe-finned fish like coelocanths are occ...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Geological excursion in the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Assynt region, 1912

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The British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting, Dundee 1912. Geological excursion in the North-West Highlands of Scotland....
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Galleries in Westphalian A (Lower Coal Measures) sandstone, Hown's Quarry, Consett, Durham.

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BGS image ID: P222553 Galleries in Westphalian A (Lower Coal Measures) sandstone, Hown's Quarry, Consett, Durham. Looking North.  T...