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Goniatite fossils - Ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that swam in the warm seas that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Septarian nodule (Fossilized mud bubble).
County Clare, Ireland.

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The variety of size and orientation of these Goniatite fossils makes them look like celestial bodies suspended in the darkness of space.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Small fossilized Brachiopod shells. The remains of these shellfish are scattered throughout the limestone rocks of the Burren.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A partially revealed Septarian nodule.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fossilized Communal Coral running through this limestone pebble - evidence of the tropical seabed that once covered this area.
County Clare, Ireland.

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An oval concretion, with flat and rounded faces, polished smooth by waves and sand.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Looks like he's spotted something worrying creeping up behind me 😯🤣🤣

Goniatite fossils in a shale pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

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One of the more obvious signs of recent Cliff erosion - these fence posts were not dangling from the cliff less than two weeks ago.
Just a reminder that the Cliffs are very much a "work in progress".
County Clare, Ireland.

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A perfectly positioned Goniatite fossil in the shore smoothed pebble. Wet and Dry.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils spiraling through a piece of dark shale concretion.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fiadh, checking the horizon from the Cliffs of Moher.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A hardy local farmer - heading down to the closest bit of shoreline to his house to check for flotsam and jetsam.
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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A fractured stone heart 💙 from Irelands Atlantic shore.
Septarian nodule
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Burren stone wall with Mullaghmore peeping over the top.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils spread throughout this piece of shale from the Cliffs of Moher. Evidence of lives lived on this same spot over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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The Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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Colonial Coral fossil. Exposed in Burren limestone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A fresh afternoon at the Cliffs of Moher. 🌬🌊
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Stone that floats!!
A small piece of pumice stone. Spewed out by a volcanic eruption and has drifted in the Atlantic before washing up on Irelands west coast.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Septarian nodule - a fossilized mud bubble that has eroded out of the shale layers at the Cliffs of Moher.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fossilized Goniatites like galaxies spiraling through space. Over 300 million years in the making.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Two sides of the same Septarian nodule. A fossilized mud bubble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Goniatite fossil - its internal flotation chambers preserved in stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Solitary Rugose Coral fossil in Burren limestone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Solitary Rugose Coral fossil in Burren limestone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Stigmaria - this is a fossilized root section of a Lepidodendron "tree" still embedded in the rock.
Over 300 million years ago, this area was covered in forest of these large tree-like plants, related to modern Club mosses.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Pretty pebble - the iron rich circular spots that run through this pebble may have been the spaces that small burrows or roots made back when this was a soft mud over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Brachiopod fossils, in shale. Certain shale layers in the Cliffs of Moher and some of the limestone layers in the Burren are packed with the fossilized remains of these ancient shellfish.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils, studded throughout this piece of Carboniferous era shale.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Shooting stars, spiraling galaxies and spinning planets.
A shore-stone packed with Goniatite fossils of various sizes and orientations. Just a small sample of the shells that littered the ocean floor here over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A close-up of the Slow Worms (Anguis fragilis) face, from over a week ago. Still quite exited that I got such a good look at it ☺️
County Clare, Ireland.

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Partial Goniatite fossils, of various sizes, eroding from this concretion chunk.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Looking out, from the back of a seacave, on a fine Summers day.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossil in a dark shale concretion.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A spiral in stone - the fossilized remains of a Goniatite shell. Ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that lived in the tropical sea that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fossilized Goniatite galaxies spiraling through the deep space of a dark sedimentary stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A fossilized Goniatite shell emerging from seaworn shore stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A sea smoothed ball of Goniatite fossils.
The shells of ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that swam the seas over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A dark shale nodule studded through with white Goniatite fossils.
Their shells once lay scattered across the sea floor that covered this area 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A fossilized mud bubble!! Formed in the mud layers of the massive delta that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A small herd of feral Goats making their way across the Burren National park on a stunning spring morning.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A worried looking cluster of Goniatite fossils. 😯
County Clare, Ireland.

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A perfect wee Goniatite fossil - preserved in stone for over 300 million years and eventually worn down to a pebble by Atlantic ocean waves.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Aill na Searrach (Cliff of the foals) at the Cliffs of Moher.
You can see in the middle of the cliff face the dust and debris remains of a recent rock fall.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Goniatite fossil - although related to modern Squid and Octopus, this one looks like a mini Rams horn preserved in stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Concretion that has eroded from the stone layers at the Cliffs of Moher and taken a bit of a battering on the shore.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Deep space in a shore stone.
Complete with swirling nebula, scattered stars and spiraling galaxies.
County Clare, Ireland.

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The night sky trapped in a shore stone.

A mix of carboniferous era marine fossils in a seaworn sedimentary pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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