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Ian L
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Chartered Geologist, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, L2 rugby coach, L3 PT, athletics coach. Cardiff University Alumni. Just trying to make the world a better place.
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Mmmmm, chrysotile.
Why do the useful minerals have to be so deadly?
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ordovician named by charles Lapworth to resolve a despute between Adam Sedgewick and Roderick Murchison (Ordovician Controvesy) . Silurian named by Murchison — after two Welsh tribes - Silures and Ordovices
August 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assemblage of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland
Although globally scarce, Middle Jurassic dinosaur tracks are known from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and help indicate the palaeoenvironmental preferences and behaviour of major dinosaur clades. Here,...
journals.plos.org
April 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM