What better bugs to love than trilobites? While other stands at this Ipswich Museum event on February 21st showed butterflies and maggots, GeoSuffolk highlighted these favourites which were extinct long before the dinosaurs. We had to import them from Wales as such ancient rocks are inaccessible hundreds of metres below the fields of Suffolk.
Cavenham Heath CGS condition monitoring - GOOD; a contemporary letter on Cardinal Wolsey's Harwich Stone, and more in GeoSuffolk Times no. 60
Take a stroll along the main track though Cavenham Heath National Nature Reserve and, once you get your eye in, you can see Pleistocene river terraces of the River Lark. The photo shows a steep break of slope (running across just above centre) separating two level terraces. GeoSuffolk has given County Geodiversity Site designation to the terraces and the photo (by Andrew Fleming) is part of our recent condition monitoring.
A visit to Cromer yesterday provided us with a fine view of the power of the sea, with waves created by the strong winds of storm Pia battering Cromer pier and promenade.
The well-wooded Ferry Cliff shelters a fine walk with views of the River Deben and reminders at low tide of the SSSI with Palaeocene deposits which yielded early mammal fossils to a Natural History Museum excavation. Read more in GeoSuffolk Times 59.