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Not long been home from my latest field trip - the weather was perfect. I had a great day. I’ve posted a lot of photos to my Out In The Field link, but not sure of their quality. So just for now I’m posting a few of them here as they were found. To tell you the truth I’ve never dealt with this material before so don’t really don’t know how to prep them if at all. Any help with I.Ds would be appreciated it’s a bit of a mixed bag of finds I know these are sharks teeth but to what species I’ve no idea. Let me tell you this is a HUGE quarry with miles of opportunities for collecting fossils in many different beds, everything from the oolite series to Oxford Clay. Gypsum is also quite common here. This site also contains one of the most fascinating faults of its kind in the UK and is likely to soon have SSSI status. This site is too big to completely cover in one trip; it is several miles wide and is still growing. The best area to search in is the Blisworth Limestone, part of the Oolite series. Both the Great and Inferior Oolite is present at here. Ammonites can be found, but shells, corals, echinoids and micro fossils such as sharks teeth and bones are more common. Dinosaur footprints are also quite common along with fragments of bone. Geology: the Great and Inferior Oolite makes up the bulk of the beds at the quarry. The exact name of the limestone is the Blisworth Limestone. At the top of the beds is the Blisworth Clay. Darren p.s. two separate posts 9 more photos to come.
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