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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A colonial coral fossil and a Solitary Rugose Coral in the one shore tumbled stone.
County Donegal, 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 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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Evening with Fiadh at the Cliffs of Moher.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Looking South towards Hags Head as the low evening sun in the West lights up the rock faces at the Cliffs of Moher.
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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Galaxies spiraling through a star speckled sky.
Goniatite fossils of varying sizes in a sea smoothed stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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An almost perfectly circular Septarian nodule. Looking like lightening trapped in a pebble, these are actually fossilized mud bubbles.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A teeny tiny Goniatite fossil. You can see the spaces where its gas filled flotation chambers would have been.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fossilized Crinoid stems and segments in a dark sedimentary stone. Looking like the scattered pieces of some long forgotten machine.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Septarian nodule with fools gold (iron pyrite) encrusted veins. Basically a fancy fossilized mud bubble.
Might be my favourite stone so far this year!!
County Clare, Ireland

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Goniatite fossils - trapped in the shale layers that make up the Cliffs of Moher, for over 300 million years. Ancient residents of the shallow sea that once covered this area.
County Clare, Ireland.

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It is a partially revealed Goniatite fossil.
County Clare, Ireland.

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X marks the spot - pink rock veins cross each other in this Granitic shore stone. Likely another iceage traveller, moving south from Galway in glaciers over 15,000 years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Cephalopod coils.
Goniatites were shelled relatives of today's Octopus and Squid that swam the oceans here over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A piece of pyritised (fools gold) fossilized Calamites. These were large ancient relatives of the Horsetail plants we see today.
County Clare, Ireland.

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"Fools Gold" or Iron pyrite, formed as plant materials fossilized between the shale layers at the Cliffs of Moher.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A partial Solitary Rugose Coral fossil in the Burren limestone. Evidence of the tropical sea that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A circular concretion - formed in the shale layers of the Cliffs of Moher millions of years ago and worn smooth recently by sand and wave action at it's base.
County Clare, Ireland.

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This ended up looking more like a painting than a photo. Probably because of the amount of salt spray in the air and the diffused light it caused.
Couldn't decide which I like most so posted both - have you got a preference?
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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A Septarian nodule about to hatch!!
County Clare, Ireland.

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A shale piece packed full with Goniatite fossils. The divisions between their internal flotation chambers are clearly visible.
Their shells must have littered the ancient sea floor that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A patch of fossilized communal Coral eroding out of the Burren limestone - visible traces of the tropical sea that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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