Sunday, 30 March 2014

Nodule tools, Kent's Cavern, Torquay.

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BGS Image ID: P232125 Photographs of nodule tools (breccia) from Kent's Cavern, Torquay. Photographs taken by A.R. Hunt. Photographs...
Sunday, 23 March 2014

Black Moss, Dinnet, Aberdeenshire. Kieselguhr or diatomite works 1917

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BGS Image ID: P000025 Black Moss, 2.4 km. north of Dinnet Station. Aberdeenshire. 1917. The kieselguhr (diatomite) works. Extracting the...
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Sunday, 16 March 2014

Plates from James Sowerby's British Mineralogy 1802-1817

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BGS Image ID: P704650 PLUMBUM Galaena. Sulphure of Lead; Galena. Plate no. 24. From: Sowerby, James. 1802-1817. British Mineralogy: ...
Sunday, 9 March 2014

Marbles from the Walter Brown Collection

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BGS Image ID: P576068 P576068 Marble specimen. Calabria, Italy. Pallizzi Quarries, Calabria, Italy. Calabria, Italy. Alternative name...
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Sunday, 2 March 2014

Landslip, Headon Hill, Totland Bay, 1921

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BGI Image ID:  P201811 Cliff N. side of Headon Hill, Totland Bay. Isle of Wight. Looking SW. Headon Beds, landslip in foreground. The wh...
Monday, 17 February 2014

Granite from Ailsa Craig, Scotland

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BGS Image ID:  P521397 Rock specimen of riebeckite granite. Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde, Ayrshire, Scotland.  British Geological Survey ...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Kemnay Quarries, a working granite quarry, 1939.

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BGS Image ID: P000136 Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. General view of the mason's yard. Stockpiled finished stone in a variety of si...
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Sunday, 9 February 2014

St. Austell Granite from Gready Quarry. 1914.

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Crystals of orthoclase with inclusions of biotite   Crystals of orthoclase with inclusions of biotite Twinned crystal of orth...
Sunday, 2 February 2014

Fossil fish from the British Geological Survey collections

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BGS Image ID:  P549484 Thrissops, a ray-finned fish from the Jurassic. Specimen GSM85802. Thrissops was a member of the more advanced ...
Sunday, 26 January 2014

Henry Moubray Cadell Collection. Photos from four continents.

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BGS Image ID: P769129 Cadell family(?) in India BGS Image ID: P768981 Pyramids and Sphinx of Egypt BGS Image ID: P768923 Yo...