#urbangeology — Public Fediverse posts
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Yes, of course I own a chess board set made out of Temperoceras limestone from Morocco! ⚒️ #fossils #geology #UrbanGeology #FossilFriday
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Fun fact: the green rock used for the desk front behind the speaker podium in the Uno Assembly Hall is made out of serpentinite from Aosta Valley, Italy. ⚒️ 🧪 #UrbanGeology
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Great framing and #UrbanGeology content. ⚒️🤩
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Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden.
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Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden.
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Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized #ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden. #urbangeology
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Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized #ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden. #urbangeology
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Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized #ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden. #urbangeology
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Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized #ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden. #urbangeology
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Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized #ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden. #urbangeology
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The joys of 'urban geology': How to find fossils (and other discoveries) in your city's buildings.
If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks.
#UrbanGeology #Geology #Fossils #Rocks #Cities #PortlandStone #UrbanExploring #London
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You've got to love Roach Stone - it's a facies (variety) of the famous Portland Stone (a Jurassic limestone) that many of the public buildings in London are built from. Christopher Wren made Portland Stone famous when he used it to build the new St Paul's Cathedral in London after the Great Fire. OK, so he had shares in the quarry...
The stone is full of fossil shells - the pointy ones are the famous 'Portland Screws'.
#Geology #UrbanGeology #Limestone #PortlandStone #RoachStone #Jurassic #ChristopherWren #FossilFriday
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@urbangeology Yey! You're here!!
Let me greet you with this glorious polished #serpentinite cladding a wall in Nottingham. 🙂
You can lose yourself looking at what you could swear is 3d detail (Reader, it isn't!)
(For folk who are interested, serpentinites are rocks that form from changes to certain existing igneous rocks. Hydrothermal fluids that percolate through them can deposit minerals that solidify in in a snakeskin-like pattern - hence the name.)
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It's not often that you see rock trying to pass itself off as Kendal Mint Cake, but these blocks of Carrara Marble cladding Birmingham Bullring's Rotunda are doing a pretty good impression of it.
We're probably(!) more used to seeing Carrara Marbles slabbed or sculpted and then polished, but here the un-dressed face of each piece catches the light. It started life as a limestone, but was recrystallised as marble by heat and pressure - a metamorphic rock, of Jurassic age.
#Geology #UrbanGeology #Marble #CarraraMarble #Texture #Metamorphic #Jurassic #Birmingham
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Urban fossil hunting fun from a 19th century wall built 1822-66 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. These brachiopod shells and crinoid stems, and colonial coral, are preserved remains of animals that lived in a warm shallow sea about 430 million years ago. I don't know which quarry these ashlar blocks originated from but they're Much Wenlock Limestone. They can be found on the Barrett Browning Institute facing The Homend, named for poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which is appropriate as I was there for the literary festival. There are also crinoid stems in the cobbles paving Church Lane.
#FossilFriday #fossils #UrbanGeology #urbanism #Herefordshire #WenlockWednesday
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Urban fossil hunting fun from a 19th century wall built 1822-66 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. These brachiopod shells and crinoid stems, and colonial coral, are preserved remains of animals that lived in a warm shallow sea about 430 million years ago. I don't know which quarry these ashlar blocks originated from but they're Much Wenlock Limestone. They can be found on the Barrett Browning Institute facing The Homend, named for poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which is appropriate as I was there for the literary festival. There are also crinoid stems in the cobbles paving Church Lane.
#FossilFriday #fossils #UrbanGeology #urbanism #Herefordshire #WenlockWednesday
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Urban fossil hunting fun from a 19th century wall built 1822-66 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. These brachiopod shells and crinoid stems, and colonial coral, are preserved remains of animals that lived in a warm shallow sea about 430 million years ago. I don't know which quarry these ashlar blocks originated from but they're Much Wenlock Limestone. They can be found on the Barrett Browning Institute facing The Homend, named for poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which is appropriate as I was there for the literary festival. There are also crinoid stems in the cobbles paving Church Lane.
#FossilFriday #fossils #UrbanGeology #urbanism #Herefordshire #WenlockWednesday
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Urban fossil hunting fun from a 19th century wall built 1822-66 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. These brachiopod shells and crinoid stems, and colonial coral, are preserved remains of animals that lived in a warm shallow sea about 430 million years ago. I don't know which quarry these ashlar blocks originated from but they're Much Wenlock Limestone. They can be found on the Barrett Browning Institute facing The Homend, named for poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which is appropriate as I was there for the literary festival. There are also crinoid stems in the cobbles paving Church Lane.
#FossilFriday #fossils #UrbanGeology #urbanism #Herefordshire #WenlockWednesday
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Urban fossil hunting fun from a 19th century wall built 1822-66 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. These brachiopod shells and crinoid stems, and colonial coral, are preserved remains of animals that lived in a warm shallow sea about 430 million years ago. I don't know which quarry these ashlar blocks originated from but they're Much Wenlock Limestone. They can be found on the Barrett Browning Institute facing The Homend, named for poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which is appropriate as I was there for the literary festival. There are also crinoid stems in the cobbles paving Church Lane.
#FossilFriday #fossils #UrbanGeology #urbanism #Herefordshire #WenlockWednesday
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Mint cake on the Rotunda?
Blogged https://shutterbugofstone.blogspot.com/2025/04/mint-cake-on-rotunda.html
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In case anyone's interested, I've refreshed my blog and started it from scratch. I'll be posting about: #Geology #UrbanGeology #SciComm #Wildflowers #Photography #Life and anything/everything else, starting with: https://shutterbugofstone.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-snakeskin-wall.html
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The coffee is hot and fresh. The counter is one billion, six hundred million years old. It's a type of stone called Rapakivi granite. #PrideInNature #UrbanGeology
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Thank god it's #FossilFriday! Here are some ammonites at a wall. #UrbanGeology ⚒️
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Hey, Fedi friends, how is everyone tonight?
I thought I'd post a #FossilFriday pic: This is Marston Marble, a fossil-rich Lower #Jurassic limestone from Somerset in England's West Country. It's gorgeous. I mean, just look at all those ammonites!!
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The joys of 'urban geology': How to find fossils (and other discoveries) in your city's buildings.
If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks.
#UrbanGeology #Geology #Fossils #Rocks #Cities #PortlandStone #UrbanExploring #London
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The joys of 'urban geology': How to find fossils (and other discoveries) in your city's buildings.
If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks.
#UrbanGeology #Geology #Fossils #Rocks #Cities #PortlandStone #UrbanExploring #London
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The joys of 'urban geology': How to find fossils (and other discoveries) in your city's buildings.
If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks.
#UrbanGeology #Geology #Fossils #Rocks #Cities #PortlandStone #UrbanExploring #London