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In this issue:• Dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye, Scotland• The weird world of fossil worm cocoons • Recent finds• Fossil folklore: ammonites • Pett Level with UKAFH• An Ipswichian interglacial bone bed at Shropham Pit, Norfolk• The histology of a sauropod rib bone found on the IOW
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DepositsROCKS,FOSSILS G E O L O G YIssue 46
Deposits The Dinosaur footprints of
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Typical fossil hunting trips include:• Fairlight, Sussex • Ramsholt, Suffolk • Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire • Broom Pit, Suffolk • Abbey Wood, London • Thorness Bay, IOW • Fowlmead Country Park, Kent • Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Kent • Eastbourne, East Sussex • Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex • Folkestone, Kent • Mappleton, Yorkshire • Samphire Hoe, Kent • Gilwern Hill Quarry, Wales • Saltwick Bay, Yorkshire • Seasalter, Kent • Ecclesbourne River, DerbyshirePlease see UKAFH website for dates and times: www.ukafh.com.
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Dear readers...Those of you who watched the BBC’s ‘Have I got News for You’ on Friday, 29 April 2016 would have been surprised to see that Deposits was used for the guest publication. While we knew the BBC intended to feature Deposits, it wasn’t until the day of broadcast that we knew it was appearing.
Traffic to our website quadruped the same day, with a surge directly after the programme, and traffic was also elevated for the days following, boosting subscriber numbers in the process. The opening comment was based on one of our articles by Steven Donovan, Interesting borings, the gag was that Deposits could not make up its mind if it was ‘interesting’ or ‘boring’. In the missing word competition, the snippet selected was “The dinosaurs ran away from Europe for no apparent reason”.
And those who saw the later extended version, ‘Have I got a bit more news for you’, would have seen the missing word round feature “Centipede bigger than a human is Germany’s Fossil of the Year”. This snippet came from Issue 43 of Deposits from the article Arthropleura: Germany’s ‘Fossil of the Year’ written by Jens Lehmann (Germany).Other news… We have just launched version 7 of UK Fossils. Since its launch in 1998, UK Fossils has become badly fragmented. Whenever we started work on a new version, technology changed and a newer version superseded it. The result is a network consisting of locations written in four different layout styles.
Although we started work on a responsive V6 site, which worked on mobiles, since starting this new format two years ago, traffic to our site now consists of 80% from mobiles and tablets, compared with just 20% with the last update. This meant we decided to work in reverse and design a site that was written for mobiles and tablets, which also looked good on desktops.
However, we needed a long term solution that would prevent the site ever being fragmented like this again. Updating locations typically takes hours, as the site is written in so many different styles. Adding locations is much longer. We needed to go right back to the drawing board and start all over again.
And that is exactly what V7 of UK Fossils does. Following the poplar style of our new Deposits magazine website, it is heavily cross-linked to this forum and all the social networking sites. Our UK Fossils app will launch very soon on Android and Apple platforms, enabling you to read locations while down on location and without relying on a mobile signal.
Enjoy!
Alister Cruickshanks (Deposits Magazine, Production Editor and co-founder)
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Jack's art cornerJack Tonkes (UK)
On location: Hayburn Wyke, Yorkshire Alister Cruickshanks (UK)
A late Pleistocene bone bed at Shropham Pit, Norfolk, 1994Tim Holt-Wilson (UK)
Book Review: Introducing Natural Resources - by Graham Park Jon Trevelyan (UK)
Khajuraho stone temples of IndiaKhursheed Dinshaw (India)
Book Review: Devonshire Marbles: their geology, history and uses - by Gordon M Walkden Jon Trevelyan (UK)
The dinosaur footprints of Whitby Dr Trevor Watts (UK)
A historical note on amberBlake Reher (USA)
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Directory of societies and associations
C o n t e n t sPett Level with UKAFHAidan Philpott (UK)
Diary of events
Dinosaurs footprints on the Isle of Skye, ScotlandMark Wilkinson (UK)
Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America,Baltimore, November 2015Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands)
Glacial rock flour and the preservation of Greenland fossil fishDeborah Painter (USA)
The weird world of fossil worm cocoonsStephen McLoughlin, Benjamin Bomfleur and Thomas Mörs (Sweden)
News snippets
The histology of a sauropod rib bone found in the Wessex formation, Hanover point, Isle of Wight.Megan Jacobs (UK)
Fossil folklore: ammonitesPaul D Taylor (UK)
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Aquamarine comes from the Latin word ‘aqua marina’, meaning ‘water of the sea’. The gem occurs at most locations where beryl is found, since it is mostly a blue cyan variety of beryl. One of the most famous places is Sri Lanka, where gem gravel placer deposits are highly productive. Aquamarine can be yellow (known as chrysolite), but is more often blue - which is a variety called maxixe, which is more commonly found in Madagascar. Its colour fades to white when exposed to sunlight or is subjected to heat treatment, although the colour returns with irradiation.
In each issue of Deposits, we publish a reminder of the National Fossil Collecting code. This is a comprehensive guidance for all and we strongly advise that it should be followed. It is also important that it is recognised that various locations may change their geography, access and suitability due to a number of factors, including erosion and regional council regulations, and (following the code) it is imperative that tide times are fully researched in advance of a visit to the coast. From time to time, we do receive emails or calls from people complaining to us about the minority who they claim have little respect for coastal areas, private property or their own safety. Therefore, we must point out that we strongly discourage any reader to disrespect these codes and that SSSI locations must be respected. Indeed, it saddens us to think that any person might disrespect these codes and laws.
The National Fossil Collecting code is promoted and displayed on the following sites; www.ukfossils.co.uk, www.discoveringfossils.co.uk and www.ukafh.com.
National Fossil Collecting code
Aidan Philpott (UK)
