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Description: | molluscs
Research collection of fossils and recent material created while Dr Norton was a student at Cambridge and Glasgow Universities. The collection consists mostly of molluscs with a very few specimens of other animal groups (e.g. fish bones, barnacle plates). Dr Norton collected many of the specimens himself from surface exposures and boreholes in the East Anglian Early Pleistocene; predominantly Norwich Crag Formation, and from the Tjornes sequence in Northern Iceland; Pliocene and Early Pleistocene specimens. The collection is complemented by comparative fossil reference specimens from the Netherlands and Belgium, recent comparitive specimens from beach and submarine sampling, and also specimens donated by other collectors especially G. Spaink of the Netherlands Geological Survey, Haarlem. The specimens are accompanied by a catalogue (16 looseleaf ringbinders) with nomenclatural and ecological notes, a reprint collection of relevant scientific articles and research correspondence files (27 boxes and 4 ringbinders), a card index links the specimens to the Catalogue and Reprint Collection. The collection is useful for the study of marine and palaeoecological conditions at the time of deposition and for the study of the stratigraphy of the deposits.
Dr. Peter Norton was a zoology lecturer at Glasgow University from 1964 to 1978 and then became a vicar in Cumbria. He retired in 2004, and moved to Norfolk to work on the malacological (mollusc) collections of Norwich Castle Museum's Geology Department, and to continue work on his own collection, which he donated to the museum. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, a member of the Geological Association and the Malacological Union, and was elected Honorary President and Chairman of the Geological Society of Norfolk in 2005. | Format: | 5500 specimens, together with catalogues, letters and articles | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7433 | Format: | 5500 specimens, together with catalogues, letters and articles | Go to resource |
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