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.
Ipswich Museum celebrates the designation of its post-Cretaceous geology collection by the Arts Council as of national importance.
Geologists and museum people gathered at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich yesterday for a convivial evening of celebration. Pictured are Dr Simon Jackson, Ipswich Museum Geologist, and Bob Markham of GeoSuffolk - ties were in order! Also starring were a woolly rhino skull from Weybread, a woolly mammoth tooth from Barham (held by Simon) and, in the case, a Romanian mammoth tooth from Falkenham in Suffolk.
Take a walk down Crag Path (Aldeburgh), visit Gainsborough's House Museum (Sudbury), read about the Coralline Crag in GeoSuffolk Times no 58
Part of the external wall of Gainsborough's House Museum.
It's always fun trying to spot the faults cutting the London Clay in Nacton Cliff CGS. We saw this one when we visited yesterday - on the right of the image. Also standing out, literally, are blocks of London Clay septaria mudstone. We shall be exhibiting Cardinal Wolsey's proposed use for this stone on Heritage Open Days in Ipswich.
This attractive creamy-yellow limestone, found only in Suffolk, has been quarried as a building stone for many centuries. To find out how it formed, where to see it and more about its use in history download GeoSuffolk's new leaflet Suffolk's Coralline Crag Rock-Bed.