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A preview of articles scheduled for publication.
The Smithsonian National Zoo’s own geological feature
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Geology museums of Britain: The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Part 2) – Big Pit, Blaenavon, Monmouthshire
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 3): Early pterygotids – precursors to the giant sea scorpions
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The lost rainforest of the West Cumberland Coalfield (Part 4): After the drowning – the roof-shale succession
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Geology museums of Britain: Cromer Museum, the West Runton Mammoth and the Cromer Forest-bed Formation
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 4): Echinosphaerites aurantium – the grapefruit-shaped cystoid
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The lost lakes of Britain (Part 1): The Orcadian lakes – reconstructing Scotland’s lost Devonian world
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Geology museums of Britain: The Rotunda Museum, Scarborough
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 5): Flexicalymene meeki – the classic enrolled trilobite
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Proterochampsids: A key group in continental Triassic ecosystems
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 6): Isotelus maximus – one of the giants of the trilobite world
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The lost lakes of Britain (Part 2): The ‘parallel roads’ of Glen Roy – a vanished Ice Age lake system
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 7): Maclurites bigsbyi – the open-coiled oddity of the Ordovician
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The lost rainforest of the West Cumberland Coalfield (Part 5): The ferns return – Pecopteris and the first colonisers of the drowned swamp
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 8): Nemagraptus gracilis — the elegant index fossil of the Middle Ordovician
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The lost lakes of Britain (Part 3): Landscapes that vanished, rivers that remain
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 9): Orthoceras – the straight-shelled icons of Ordovician Seas
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 10): Receptaculites oweni – the “sunflower fossil” of the Ordovician
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 11): Strophomena planumbona – the evolving architecture of Ordovician brachiopods
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The lost rainforest of the West Cumberland Coalfield (Part 6): The seed-fern story – Neuropteris, Odontopteris and Alethopteris
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The weird and wonderful of the Ordovician (Part 12): Trinucleus fimbriatus – the blind fringe-faced trilobite of Britain’s Late Ordovician
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The lost rivers of England (Part 1): The Seven Sisters and how Ice Age rivers helped shape one of Britain’s most famous coastlines
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 1): Calymene blumenbachii – the Dudley Bug and the Silurian trilobite that became a cultural icon
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 2): Encrinurus punctatus – a spiny Wenlock trilobite forged in a sea of predators
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The lost rivers of England (Part 2): The vanished Bytham River
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 3): Halysites catenularia – the chain coral that wove the framework of Wenlock reefs
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The West Cumberland Coalfield’s lost rainforest (Part 7): Rivers, reeds and dry patches – Calamites and Cordaites on the Carboniferous floodplain
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 4): Monograptus priodon – the Silurian graptolite that defined an era
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The lost rivers of England (Part 3): Rivers beneath the Channel and the Solent River
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 5): Pentamerella of the Arctic Silurian – a brachiopod window onto far-northern seas
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 6): Pentamerus oblongus – the Llandovery heavyweight and architect of the Early Silurian seafloor
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 7): Phragmoceras – the hooked nautiloid that redefined Silurian cephalopod design
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The lost rainforest of the West Cumberland Coalfield (Part 8): From Langsettian to Bolsovian – dating the West Cumberland Coalfield flora
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 8): Plectodonta bipartita – a Wenlock brachiopod at the heart of a recovering world
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The lost landscape of Britain: Doggerland – a lost world beneath the North Sea
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 9): Pterygotus anglicus – apex predator of Silurian seas
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 10): Rhizophyllum – the Wenlock sponge that held reefs together
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 11): Silurian Carpoids of Britain – the echinoderms that broke all the rules
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The weird and wonderful of the Silurian (Part 12): Silurian cystoids – the last experiments of an ancient echinoderm lineage
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