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Ice age britain and climate change
Graham Worton the current curator and Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery tells us how the advance and retreat of ice has caused the Black Country to rebound and how the Stour Valley would once have been home to hippos and lions.
Posted in General, Local Geology
Tagged Climate change, Extinct, Geology, Ice Age, Video
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Stabilizing the mine entrance to the Seven Sisters
Graham Worton the current curator and Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery tells us about recent engineering work undertaken in the summer of 2010 to stabalise the Seven Sisters mine entrance and why this work was needed.
Posted in Local Geology
Tagged Dudley, Engineering, mines, Mining, Seven Sisters, Video, Wrens Nest
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Murchison’s view
Graham Worton, the Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum and Art Gallery, introduces us to “Murchison’s View”. Murchison’s View is located at the southern tip of the Wrens Nest National Nature Reserve (NNR) which is to the north east of Dudley Town Centre, West Midlands.
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Tagged Collecting, Collectors, Dudley, Geology, Murchison, Places, Video, Wrens Nest
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Looking after your fossil collection
Graham Worton, the Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum and Art Gallery, talks about how to look after your fossil collection because each specimen is unique and can’t be replaced. He explains what information to keep with specimens and how to store them correctly.
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Tagged Collecting, collections, Fossils, Storing fossils, Video
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How to store your fossil collection
Graham Worton the current curator and Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery tells us how to store your geological collection correctly so that information is not forgotten and collections don’t deteriorate.
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Tagged Collecting, collections, Curation, Fossils, Storing fossils, Video
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Protecting your pyrite collection
Graham Worton the current curator and Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery tells us about how ‘pyrite cancer’ can destroy the pyrite specimens within collections unless the correct methods are used to preserve them.
Posted in Collecting, Minerals
Tagged Collecting, Collections care, Fossils, Minerals, Pyrites, Video
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The Seven Sisters mines and the Black Country miners
Graham Worton the current curator and Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery tells us about the Seven Sisters mine at the Wrens Nest, Dudley and how the mined rock was used to build structures such as Dudley Castle. Graham also explains the life of a miner and the methods the miners would have [...]
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Tagged Dudley, Miners, mines, Mining, Seven Sisters, Video, Wrens Nest
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The Seven Sisters mine, Wrens Nest, Dudley
Graham Worton the current curator and Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery tells us about the Seven Sisters mine at the Wrens Nest, Dudley which are a Scheduled Ancient Monument. He explains how the limestone mined at this mine was used and how it was transported using the canal system.
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Tagged Canals, Dudley, mines, Seven Sisters, Video, Wrens Nest
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The last Black Country coal
Here Graham Worton, the Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museums and Art Gallery, shows us one of the last pieces of coal to be mined in the Black Country. It was brought to the surface in March 1968 from a depth of 2160 feet below the surface and represents the end of Black Country mining.
Beneath your feet
Graham Worton the current curator and Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery tells us about England under our feet and why the Black Country and its coalfields stand out on a geological map of Britain.
