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The weird and wonderful of the Cambrian (Part 20): Yunnanozoon lividum– a window into the earliest chordate blueprint
Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the twentieth and last in my series of short articles on fossils of the Cambrian. Yunnanozoon lividum, from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang biota of southwest China of about 518 million years old, is one of the most intriguing fossils in the long search for the …

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Geology museums of Britain: Dudley Canal and Caverns
Jon Trevelyan (UK) Beneath Dudley Castle lies a landscape that began as a tropical Silurian sea and ended as one of the most intensively worked limestone systems in Britain. Around 425 million years ago, this part of the Midlands lay beneath a warm, shallow sea, building the reef limestone now …

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The lost rainforest of the West Cumberland Coalfield (Part 3): Beneath the giants – Stigmaria and the swamp floor
The trunks of Lepidodendron and Sigillaria (Part 2) dominate most people’s mental image of the Carboniferous swamp, but to understand how these forests actually functioned, you need to look beneath the surface, into the layer that supported and anchored the entire ecosystem. In the West Cumberland Coalfield, this means one thing above all - Stigmaria, the distinctive rooting sys...

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The weird and wonderful of the Cambrian (Part 19): Wiwaxia corrugata – the armoured grazer of the Cambrian seafloor
Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the nineteenth in my series of short articles on fossils of the Cambrian. Wiwaxia corrugata is one of the most distinctive animals of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale – a soft-bodied creature decked in shimmering scales and sharp defensive spines, crawling slowly across the seafloor …

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Geology Museums of Britain: Honister Slate Mine, Cumbria
Jon Trevelyan (UK) The road over Honister Pass does not feel like a place for industry. It climbs abruptly into the high fells, threading between steep slopes and exposed rock faces, with little sense of the gentler, pastoral Lake District often presented in guidebooks. Yet, set into this harsh landscape …

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