A nice showcase of Dorset #buildingstones on this building near Trafalgar Square; Portland Roach & Whitbed plus some nice Purbeck too #urbangeology #urbanpalaeontology
A throwback to a trip to Vancouver for #fossilfriday . This is Tyndall Stone with fossils of the Receptaculitid alga Fisherites. It's an U Ordovician limestone from Garson, Manitoba and one of Canada's great #buildingstones .
#urbangeology #tyndallstone
Capel Garmon chambered tomb near Betws-y-Coed in N Wales, an outlying Cotswold-Severn type tomb constructed with orthostats and capstone of well-cleaved Ordovician tuffs interbedded in the Cwm Eigiau Formation #Neolithic #UrbanGeology #buildingstones
Footbridge - recently installed - in the Nant-y-Geuallt near Capel Curig made from a single slab of local (ish) slate. Just love the versatility of this material #buildingstones #urbangeology
Sudeshna Basu is talking on #MoistureContent as a deteriorating factor for common #BuildingStones in London! #ICMB21 UKCMB
A new paper from Nigel Woodcock & Euan Furness on the #buildingstones of Cambridge. This is an excellent paper and sets a new standard for town building stone surveys. #urbangeology #cambridge #geoheritage
Some new locations in Chelmsford, Essex added to londonpavementgeology.co.uk
#urbangeology #Chelmsford #Essex #buildingstones
Baryte mineralisation in Helsby Sandstone Formation #buildingstones used to build St John the Baptist’s Church in Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire #welshstoneforum #fieldtrip #urbangeology
Using the #buildingstones of The British School at Athens to teach limestones and #fossils today ... #PiraeusPoros #urbangeology in #Athens #Greece 🇬🇷
FREE! Themed Discovery Sessions held Brunel University London in Uxbridge, Tuesdays 2-4pm. Meet our members, see our displays, feel our rocks! General themes for a taste of #geology Next incl: #Art #playwithclay #maps #landscapes #buildingstones #urbangeology #volcanoes
A goniatite in Penmon Limestone for #molluscmonday @NTPlasNewydd
#urbangeology #buildingstones #fossils
The 4000th location added to our website! 🥳🎉 An enormous Metropolitan Cattle Trough at Smithfields made from a HUGE single block of a strikingly muscovite-rich Cornish granite londonpavementgeology.co.uk/location-detai… #urbangeology #londonpavementgeology #buildingstones
Looking at grave memorials is a good way to start learning about #buildingstones & #urbangeology . Here are some new entries for the church of St Peter's-in-the-Forest, Walthamstow, East London, new on our website: londonpavementgeology.co.uk/geo-sites/
“The Ninth Cohort of Marcius Comatus” a centurial stone from Corbridge now built into the wall in #HexhamAbbey these buildingstones were a way of recording the units building sections #HadriansWall or other military installations #RIB1169
'Roach'-type facies in Neogene limestone; 'poros' used to build the Kapnikarea Byzantine Church on Ermou in Central Athens. Traces of shell still remaining ... #urbangeology #buildingstones #fossilfriday
#FossilFriday #Thankstoyou #NationalLottery The National Lottery Heritage Fund Midlands & East, Earth Heritage Trust has been able to cover its running costs and create this lovely new website
