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Deposits: Deposits – Fossils, geology and minerals. Highly acclaimed international earth science blog with over 800 articles and book reviews.

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Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the second article of my series of short articles on fossils of the Cambrian. When the Burgess Shale was first uncovered in the early twentieth century, few creatures caused as much confusion, misinterpretation and eventual astonishment as Anomalocaris. Today, it stands as one of the …

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At first glance, Geology: an illustrated history appears to be another entry in the now familiar genre of large-format, image-rich popular science books. In practice, however, David Bainbridge has produced something rather more distinctive: a visually driven history of geology in which images - maps, diagrams and artefacts - take a leading role, with the text providing interpret...

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Steve Snowball (UK) This article is a response to a request by the editor of Deposits to write about my inspiration and reasons for writing a series of fossil collecting guides, the latest of which is A Field Guide to Collecting British Cenozoic Fossils, by myself and Alister Cruickshanks, and …

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Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the second article of my series of short articles on fossils of the Cambrian. Amiskwia sagittiformis is one of the most intriguing and persistently debated animals from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. First described over a century ago, it long occupied a taxonomic no-man’s-land – …

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Rosalind Jones (France) Here’s a conundrum. How is it that a mountain composed of schist has a topping of Larvikite granite which is surrounded by a deposit containing Iona Marble, Old Red Sandstone and Triassic pebbles? Furthermore, why did it make global news? How did it inspire students to become …

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