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This won't become a weekly series, because there's no guarantee that each week will proffer a startling discovery. But last week did.
On Saturday afternoon we drove along the river road towards Nerrigundah, the road that I walked in twelve instalments last year with such pleasure. We wanted to examine the rock in the cuttings with new geological eyes, and see if it matched any rockage we'd seen on the ridge in the morning.
We scrutinised the rock face in a way that never occurred to me twelve months ago, noting the easy way pieces peeled or broke off and fell to the road.
Then, high up, a riveting sight. Our first local fossil. Not a shell or a leaf – these rocks are too old for that. What we were looking at was ripples, that most evanescent of motion, captured in stone.
Can you spot them?
How about now?
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What good eyes J has to first of all spot those ripples, then how clever you now are to know that they are fossils.
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Good heavens- yes! 🙂 🙂
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You’ve captured my sentiment exactly!
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Yes I found the ripples straight away. I wonder what else is there under the pieces that break off.
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“I wonder what …” is my theme song!
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Oh how exciting Meg you must have been bouncing. They look fascinating, I wonder what they are!
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J’s eyes again. I think I’m partly blind without them.
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It is just a case of educating your eyes. This geology caper is new. Look how good you now are at orchid spotting.
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I take comfort from that fact!!
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I shall have to do a post about the time when Ludlow was under the sea some 420 million years ago, a period known as the Silurian. (I think Tish has written about it so maybe search her site) There are fossils in the rocks beneath Whitcliffe common, but I have never seen any. A series of six fossil casts have been made of Silurian animals, placed at intervals along the Bread Walk and I have one or two photos, but not all of them. I must remedy that before I leave this place.
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Please do! You have an eager audience.
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