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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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Open Hertitage Day tour – Wolverhampton Art Gallery
The Heritage Open Day tour of Wolverhampton Art Gallery was given in three parts, the first part was led by the Collections Manager, Rachel Lambert-Jones. Rachel took us down to the Resource Centre where they hold some of their stored collections of approximately 1800 objects including fine art, sculpture and their weird and wonderful items [...]
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Tagged Activities, Art Gallery, Black Country, collections, Collectors, Dr Fossil, Dudley, Fossils, Geology, Igneous rocks, Minerals, Museums, Talks, The Dudley Bug, Trilobites, Wrens Nest
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Kiln burn at Dudley
On 26th May, the Building Limes Forum will be hosting a lime burn at The Black Country Living Museum. The limestone for the burn will come from the Wren’s Nest, which was extensively quarried up to the late 1920′s, creating in the process many of the limestone caverns and canal tunnels which we see in [...]
The language of the quarryman
At the same time that scientists were beginning to differentiate and name rock units, the quarrymen working deep in the mines underneath Wren’s Nest would have developed their own naming system for the rocks they encountered. Working by candlelight, their names would have been based on basic features and the look of the rock. Experienced [...]
Posted in Fossils, General, Local Geology, Rocks
Tagged Black Country, Dudley, Mining, Wrens Nest
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Birth of the Black Country
Why does geology matter to the Black Country? In this blog we investigate the historical importance of the area in relation to the mineral wealth below the ground, and the early pioneers who began the industrial development. The Black Country is an area located just to the northwest of Birmingham right at the heart of [...]
Posted in General, Local Geology
Tagged Abraham Darby, BCGS, Black Country, Canals, Dud Dudley, Dudley, Geology, Limestone, Minerals, mines, Mining, Places, Rocks, Seven Sisters, Step Shaft, Wrens Nest
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Geobabble
This is an extract from the Black Country Geological Society newsletter 209, October 2011 entitled Geobabble. Stratigraphy has always been a very important area in the study of geology. Within any geographical area, if you are looking at the geology you need to understand the sequence of the rocks, and visualise it as a column, [...]
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Tagged BCGS, Bentonites, Black Country, Dudley, Fossils, Geology, Microfossils, Scolecodonts, Wrens Nest
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Minibeasts of Dudley
This is an extract from the newsletter of The ‘Black Country Geological Society‘, No. 201 June 2010. This was part of the regular section entitled ‘The Dudley Bug’ written by members Alison Roberts and Chris Broughton. Last summer a number of different research opportunities arose at Dudley Museum. They began last spring when Graham Worton spent a [...]
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Tagged Dudley, Earth history, Extinct, Fossils, Geology, Microfossils, The Dudley Bug, Wrens Nest
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A local puzzle?
Why are sea creatures found in the middle of Dudley and not 100 miles away on the coast? Today we tend to think of shells and corals something you would find along the coasts where there are beaches, reefs and the sea. But if you took a stroll through the Wrens Nest today you find [...]
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Tagged Dudley, Faults, Folding, Fossils, Geological processes, Wrens Nest
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Siluria Revisited 2011
Last week, I attended the International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy Conference in Ludlow, Shropshire. This is where geologists from around the globe share their research and knowledge on the Silurian Geological Period. But my Silurian story began two years ago… In the summer of 2009, stabilisation works took place within the Step Shaft Mine beneath [...]
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Tagged Black Country, Canals, Collecting, Earth history, Fossils, Geology, Limestone, Microfossils, mines, Wrens Nest
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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.
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Tagged Dudley, Engineering, mines, Mining, Seven Sisters, Video, Wrens Nest
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