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Tag Archives: Chalk
Armour-plated algae
Algae in chalky coats! Continue reading
Boring Chalk
For a tunneller, certain Chalk strata have undesirable characteristics, such as the presence of hard flints or sand-like phosphatic chalk. Tunnelling is expensive, but so are delays and damage to tunnel boring machines which hit unexpected geology. So engineers planning … Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Geologists, Geology, Ignorance, Mortimore (Rory), Stratigraphy
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The building stones of Sussex
Like Sussex people Continue reading
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Tagged Building stones, Chalk, Dinosaurs, Geology, Horsham Stone, Limestone, Rocks, Sandstone, Sussex Marble, Sussex people
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Rory’s Chalk
A finely divided lithography Continue reading
A rainy day in Southerham Grey
Fossilin’ in the rain Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Geology, Geology fieldwork, SSSIs (Sites of Special Scientific Interest)
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Flint
How to make it Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Flint, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven, Rocks
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Poor Doris
Echinocoris scutata Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Echinocorys, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven
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Chalk talk
An alga speaks Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Coccoliths, Fossils, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven, Rhymes
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