Great Britain Collection (page 24)

Thames Valley in the Ipswichian Interglacial
Artists impression of the Thames Valley during the Ipswichian interglacial (135, 000 to 70, 000 years before present), with an elephant, hyaena, and hippopotami

Slate
Cambrian slate from North Wales. Slate is metamorphosed shale

Devonian landscape
An impression by Bridget Kempster of the Old Red Sandstone desert of the Devonian period (417 to 354 million years ago)

Chalk
A piece of flintless white chalk from the Upper Chalk, Flamborough, Yorks. Chalk is a sedimentary rock formed in deep seas

Quartzite

Rhynia major, fossilised plant
A complete soft tissue preservation at the cellular level in Rhynia major. Transverse section through stem, approximately 2mm in diameter. From Rhynie Chert, Scotland, Early Devonian

Bothrodendron minutifoliu, fossil clubmoss
Shown here is a fossilised leafy twig of a clubmoss originating from Carboniferous rocks near Barnsley, England

Ammonite selection
Three ammonites as follows: (Left to right) Oistoceras wrighti; Asteroceras obtusum (zonal index species); Tragophylloceras loscombi all specimens originate from the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis

Athleta luctator, fossil sea snail
A fossil sea snail (Athleta luctator) dating from the late Eocene rocks around Barton, England

Sigillaria rugosa, fossil club moss
This section of a club moss trunk displays leaf scars where leaves grew straight out from. Club mosses could grow up to heights of 30 metres

Orthoconic nautiloid, originating from near Castleton, England. The more unusual straight-shelled species belonging to the same group as ammonites and to todays living nautilus

Three brachipods
Shown here are three brachiopods (right to left) Dielasma hastata, Martinia glabra and Pleuropugnoides pleurodon. Specimens originate from near Castleton, England

Baryte crystals
Yellow prisms of the minreal baryte (BaSO4) on hematite (iron oxide) from Dalmellington Mine, Frizington, Cumbria

Amber on a Norfolk beach
Amber is a fossilised form of tree resin. Baltic amber is occasionally washed up on the beaches of eastern Britain

Cupressinoxylon, fossil wood
Composite photomicrograph showing transverse (left), tangential (centre) and radial (right) sections through fossil wood; Cupressinoxylon from the London Clay at Ashford, Kent, England

Pleistocene glacial landscape
During the Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago to 10, 000 years), ice covered much of Britain north of the Thames. Cold climate animals included the woolly mammoth (left) Mammuthus primigenius

Coal forest

Ordovician seascape
An artists impression of the Eden Valley, Cumbria in the Ordovician period (490 to 443 million years ago), with volcanoes in the sea

Dapedium orbicularis, fossil fish
A well preseved example of an enamel-scaled fish from the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England

Granite from Ailsa Craig
A photomicrograph of granite taken between crossed polarisers. Granite is an igneous rock

Pleistocene landscape
An artists impression of the Eden Valley, Cumbria during the Pleistocene epoch which occurred between 1.8 million years ago to 10, 000 years ago

Excavations, Norfolk 2006
A team of anthropologists busy working on excavations revealing ancient human occupation on the Norfolk coast, 2006. Animal remains

Asteroceras marstonensis and Promicroceras, ammonites

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