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Description: | Original fossils, minerals and rocks, which are used in the Shirehall Study Centre for handling and study sessions and also taken out to study days at various venues across the county. The collection includes examples of rocks and minerals in both their rough and polished states. Also included in the collection are mammal bones and wood which have been fossilised by petrifaction, together with casts and moulds of ammonoids, sponges, corals, echinoids (sea urchins), belemnites (extinct animals related to squid)and gastropods (eg whelks), where the soft parts have been infilled with mineral compounds. There are examples of sedimentary and igneous rocks and samples of local Norfolk boulder clays and the Norwich Crag and Cromer Forest Bed. The collection also includes examples of some common pseudofossils (markings etc that are mistaken for fossils). The collection is not on display but can be viewed by appointment.
quartz samples, belemnites | Format: | 700 specimens and objects | Subjects: | Rocks Fossils Geology education Marine animals Teaching resources Geology Extinct animals Minerals | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7013 | Format: | 700 specimens and objects | Go to resource |
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