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Article in The Leader Regarding Our Successful Volunteer Training Programme!

timastrop Uncategorized July 22, 2019 1 Minute

Ancient fern-relative Mariopteris inside an ironstone nodule, cracked open last week and snapped by Fossil Forest Volunteer Tim Hatton

16/01/19

Following the success of our Urgencies exhibition at
Tŷ Pawb in late December, The Wrexham Leader published a short piece on one of our upcoming volunteer training programmes.

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PhD OPPORTUNITY WITH THE BRYMBO FOSSIL FOREST PROJECT! http://kess2.ac.uk/the-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-dynamics-of-higher-delta-plain-carboniferous-swamps/ Please get in touch if you are interested in applying and have any questions :)

Happy #fossilfriday ! Here's an in-situ stigmaria root with associated rootlets (black stripes perpendicular to main root) preserved in the mud shales near the top of our working section #fossilforest #fossil #palaeoconservation #palaeontology #palaeobotany #paleontology #paleobotany

Putting the fossil forest to bed for the winter, night night calamites, stigmaria and lepidodendron #fossilswamp #carboniferous #paleobotany #paleontology #palaeobotany #palaeontology

#volunteers continuing to prepare the site have uncovered a sloping feature in the sandstone that appears topological in nature, we're having trouble figuring it out, any suggestions? #coalswamp #geology #sedimentology #palaeontology #carboniferous

Sunday morning volunteer session! 60+ in-situ calamites and counting!!!....

Clearing of the fossil forest area for future works is revealing some awesome specimens already, check out these gorgeous stigmaria and calamites! #fossilfriday #paleobotany #palaeobotany #palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #fossilswamp #carboniferous #palaeoconservation

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