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100 Years of the Geology at the Dudley Museum and Art Gallery
When its doors opened on Wednesday 12th December 2012 the Dudley Museum and Art Gallery (DMAG) celebrated 100 years of geology being on display. For centuries geology has played an important role within the Dudley area and to the local community. According to current DMAG Keeper of Geology, Graham Worton, ‘The 100th anniversary will kick [...]
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Tagged Activities, BCGS, Black Country, collections, Dudley, Earth history, Fossils, Geology, Lapworth, Limestone, Murchison, Museums, Places, Societies, The Dudley Bug, Wrens Nest
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A Geologist’s Christmas Carol
Back in the depths of the Little Ice Age, lived a cruel, cold-hearted man called Professor Ebenezer Lapworth. Ebenezer owned a geotechnical engineering firm called ‘Scrooge’s Slope Stabilisation’ and employed a significant workforce. However, his employees worked for pittance; they had no holidays for fossiling and defiantly NO coal in their stockings! The Black Country [...]
Memories of the Dudley Earthquake, Part 2.
Over the past ten years there have been several rock and fossil fairs in Dudley, but no more events like that of September 2002. So what do people remember about it? Readers of the BCGS newsletter were asked to send in their memories of that night. Many of these were similar to the accounts the [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Black Country, Dudley, Earthquake, Geology, Places
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Memories of the Dudley Earthquake, 22nd/23rd September 2002
I had not been a member of the Black Country Geological Society (BCGS) for long and was enjoying my first Dudley rock and fossil fair on the weekend of the 21st / 22nd September 2002. However, what happened as Sunday night passed into Monday morning made the weekend most memorable. During the night I sensed [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Black Country, Dudley, Earthquake, Geology, Places, Societies
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The life and times of Dr Fossil
This weeks blog is an extract from the newsletter of the Black Country Geological Society entitled ’The Dudley Bug’ in which we have produced a special edition world exclusive report. Little has been known about this man of science…that is until now! Over the past few months we have tracked down the elusive Dr Fossil to explore his [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Dinosaurs, Dr Fossil, fun, Geology, Ice Age, Societies, The Dudley Bug
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The golden age of exploration
This is an extract for the Black Country Geological Society newsletter. The end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries can be regarded as the golden age of polar exploration and there was great interest in Antarctica, both from the British and Norwegians. There were many expeditions culminating in Amundsen reaching the South [...]
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Tagged antartica, BCGS, explorers, geologists, Glacial, history
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Dudley down under
This is an extract from the Black Country Geological Society newsletter, October 2010. Sorting out the loft turns up some interesting things, and in my case files of old geological leaflets, notes and letters. One email I recently discovered related to my interest in the final destinations of superb Silurian fossils originating in Dudley, mostly [...]
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Tagged Australia, BCGS, Black Country, Collecting, collections, Collectors, Dudley, Fossils, Geology, Museums
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Snowball Earth – The argument against…
In last week’s blog I outlined the evidence put forward for a worldwide glaciation in the Neoproterozoic, supported by geophysical and geochemical evidence. However, as with all ground breaking developments, other geologists look at the exposures and geophysical data and come to rather different conclusions. The basis of the idea is generated by the Neoproterozoic [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Climate change, Earth history, Geology, Glacial, Glaciation, Ice Age, Snowball Earth
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Snowball Earth – The argument for…
Worldwide Precambrian tillites have been recognised for some time. The closest to us is the Port Askaig Tillite in the Dalradian. Many contain striated boulders; the Smalfjord diamictite in northern Norway rests upon a striated pavement. The term diamictite is now generally used for tillites and rocks with a similar lithology. As geological knowledge and [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Climate change, Earth history, Geology, Glacial, Glaciation, Ice Age, Precambrian, Snowball Earth
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Libyan Desert Silica Glass
This mysterious material was ‘rediscovered’ in December 1932 by Patrick Clayton whilst leading an expedition for the Egyptian ‘Desert Surveys Department’ across the Great Sand Sea of the western desert, near the Libyan border. It was found lying around in some quantity in the open ‘streets’ between ranks of high longitudinal dunes and has since [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Desert, Earth history, Geology, Glass, Lybia, Minerals, Silica
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