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Owd Cocker
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Posts: 268
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Tyldesley
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ARCHIVE: Cutacre Opencast Revisited - April 2009 -
19-04-2009, 22:00
Called in this morning and met two keen amateur geologists, although their knowledge was certainly not amateur! Showed me the best areas to look for fossil nodules and described the processes which led to their deposition.
It was red hot and a circling buzzard gave the place an eerie feel
One of the old Wharton Hall Colliery shafts was exposed, it's brick lining had shelled off, the interesting bit was the side inset tunnel into the Brassey seam
Ochrey water was coming up the shaft out of old workings
Ventilation sheeting used to course the air round the workings, known as brattish sheeting
Terex wagon
Fossil shark egg case
Neuropteris fern
Fossil seeds with hairs visible
A carbonicola mussel preserved unusually in an upright position
Nice haul of calamites roots
Best calamites section
Shale with small carbonicola mussels within it and two separated ones
Section of mussel bed, the mussels are the brownish bits
Last edited by Coalboard; 19-04-2009 at 22:17.
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