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Description: | Dendrites in a pale brown thinly bedded fine grained limestone matrix. The Dendrites are grey in colour and darker around the edges. They are brached in shape. On the edges of the braches are fine radiating lines. These Dendrites are formed of iron. The matrix forms in thin laminations with the thinnest (1mm) being the one in which the dendrites are located. The bottom lamination is the thickest (6mm). AR/CB 04/05/2010
Label on specimen; Square; Dendrites no label!! ?Solenhol Beds ?? (English White Lias)
Dendrites which are approximately 250 million years old. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fossils Geology Palaeontology Dr Fraser Collection | Temporal: | Triassic - Upper | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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