Clay – Deposits

A rock composed of particles smaller than 1/256mm. It can be distorted easily (it is plastic) when wet.

Related Articles:

Some fossil finds in the Hastings area
Geo junkets (Part 1): New Zealand, North Island
Caught between two mass extinctions: The rise and fall of Dicroidium
Book review: A Guide to Fossil Collecting on the South Dorset Coast, by Steve Snowball and Craig Chivers, with illustrations by Andreas Kurpisz
Book review: Trilobites, Dinosaurs and Mammoths: An introduction to the prehistory of the British Isles, by James McKay (for the Palaeontological Association)

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