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Fossils from the Jurassic Coast

06 Saturday Jan 2018

Posted by sconzani in geology, nature, seaside

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ammonite, beachcombing, belemnite, Charmouth, fossil hunting, fossils, Jurassic Coast, pyrite ammonite

Yesterday a living fossil fungus, today fossicking for fossils on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast – I’m on a roll with the old stuff!

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Part of one of my Christmas break days was spent at Charmouth, on England’s south coast, where my friend Sarah and I enjoyed a wonderful long beach walk, much of the time with our eyes down, searching the rocks and pebbles for fossils. Though you’re not allowed to chip away at the cliff face – and you’d be foolish to try, as it can be rather unstable and is subject to frequent mud slips, you are allowed to take fossils from the beach itself.

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Sarah spotted one enormous fossil in a big boulder, but that was rather too big to pop in my pocket and bring home.

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And, though it took a while to get my eye in, I did eventually find two small pieces of pyrite ammonite and another small rod-shaped rock, which looked very like the belemnite fossils being sold in the local shop. Result!

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