BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections

Thursday, 22 August 2013

Cardioceras densiplicatum Boden. A fossil ammonite.

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BGS image ID: P521013 A fossil specimen of Cardioceras densiplicatum Boden. A fossil ammonite. (Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea.) 30...
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Thursday, 15 August 2013

Trilobite. Acernaspis woodbarnensis Clarkson, Eldridge and Henry.

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BGS image ID: P521140 A fossil specimen of Acernaspis woodbarnensis Clarkson, Eldridge and Henry. A fossil trilobite. (Arthropoda, Tril...
Sunday, 11 August 2013

Sandstone from Ladycross Quarry, Slaley, Northumberland

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BGS image ID: P524065 Rock specimen of sandstone from Ladycross Quarry, Slaley, Northumberland, England. The sandstone is fine-grained...
Thursday, 8 August 2013

Geological Survey Department of Northern Rhodesia, c.1960

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  BGS image ID: P856634  This photograph of the staff of the Geological Survey Department of Northern Rhodesia was taken outside...
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Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Tar River Estate House, Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat.

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BGS image ID:  P063643 The Tar River Estate House on 17th September 1996 with a dome-collapse pyroclastic flow passing behind down the T...
Monday, 5 August 2013

Poster advertising exhibition of a human fossil

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BGS image ID: P849851  This poster was found in the back of a scrapbook that belonged to Roderick Murchison (1792-1871) who was Direc...
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Saturday, 3 August 2013

Cinder cones on Etna, 1892.

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BGS Image ID:  P711323 This is one of a series of photographs taken July to September 1892 that gave rise to the Monti Silvestri crater ...
Friday, 2 August 2013

Some Account of the Strata and Volcanic Appearances... 1790.

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Fig. 1. View of the Glen near Ardlun Head in Mull. Fig. 2. View of the insulated Rock at the termination of the Glen. Fig. 3. A view of...
Tuesday, 30 July 2013

James Croll

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BGS image ID: P742383 James Croll was born in 1821, the son of a Perthshire stonemason and crofter. He was to suffer from ill health thr...
Friday, 12 July 2013

Letter about C B Wedd being a German spy

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BGS image ID: P842013 This letter is from W H Spaull who was a magistrate at Oswestry. He is enquiring about geologist Charles Bertie We...
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