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Description: | The Geology Collection contains:
Comprehensive reference and display collection of rocks of the Leicester region.
Comparative collection of British and world rocks for display and educational use.
Collection of world rocks comparable with geology of the Leicester region and British rocks generally.
Core samples of rocks associated with major civil engineering projects in the region.
Comprehensive reference and display collection of minerals of the
Leicester region, including cited specimens of new species.
Reference and display collection of selected British world minerals.
Comparative and educational collection of common mineral species.
All meteorites falling in Leicester and its region.
Comparative display and educational collection of world wide meteorites.
Comprehensive reference and display collection of trace fossils, invertebrate and plant fossils of the Leicester region, including type specimens.
Reference and display collection of Mesozoic vertebrate fossils of the Midlands, including type specimens.
Comparative and display collection (selected) of vertebrate fossils, British and world-wide provenance.
In particular the following parts of the collection are important:
Fossils of Northamptonshire (Beeby Thompson collection)
Vertebrate fossils of Leicestershire, 1889 (Montagu Browne collection)
Fossil plants of Leicestershire and South Derbyshire coalfield (A R Horwood collection)
Fossil marine reptiles of the Midlands region
Type specimens of fossil marine reptiles of the Midlands region
Fossil marine reptiles of Barrow-upon-Soar, including examples of soft tissue preservation and type specimans.
Dinosaurs of the Midlands region
Pre-cambrian trace fossils, including type specimens (Charnian fauna)
Regional significance | Subjects: | Rocks Fossils Meteorites Geology Minerals | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0116 247 3005 | Telephone: | 0116 225 4900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5137 | Go to resource |
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