The Essex Rock and Mineral Society has just published this richly illustrated chart which shows fossils from the Chalk, London Clay, Red Crag and glacial deposits. It can be used equally well in Suffolk. Go to the ERMS web site for further detals.
The Pliocene Forest celebrates its 10th birthday - and for something even older read about Suffolk Jurassic in GeoSuffolk Times no.43.
The 4th edition 2019 is available. Barry Hall tells us more about the Pliocene flora in this 60-page booklet. To order your copy, send a cheque for £6 made pyable to 'GeoSuffolk', to GeoSuffolk, c/o Ipswich Museum, High Street, Ipswich, IP1 3QH.
Read Bob Markham's research on Elizabeth Knipe Cobbold (1765 - 1824) in GeoSuffolk Notes no.70. Acila cobboldiae is one of the crag's more attractive and desirable fossils. Learn how this bivalve mollusc owes its name to Ipswich's pioneering palaeontologist who collected a rare specimen on her Holywells estate.
Our Suffolk glacial deposits continue to yield many fine Jurassic fossils. This Camptonectes scallop shell was brought into Ipswich Museum for identification by GeoSuffolk on October 23rd. (The £coin is for scale!)