hello, Welcome to the "Friends of the Speeton Clay Group website". Membership is open to anyone interested in the geology and fossils of the Speeton Clay, or...
For those who don't know - the Speeton Clay is a series of marine grey clays of Early Cretaceous age that is only exposed at Speeton, East Yorkshire UK. The...
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Hi Put a picture in the photos folder. Large uncoiled ammonite found in a hard clay nodule at speeton, directly in front of the second to recent fall (summer...
Put some pictures in the Photos folder of an exceptional specimen of what I think is Oxyteuthis from a fallen block of the B beds. The specimen has a well...
Taken with a cheap 2Mpixel HP Digital Camera set on macro. Picture enhanced with PSP8 "One-step fix" which does a good job of removing any colour cast and...
I had a quick visit to Speeton this weekend, there seems to have been a lot more mudflows, more cliff falls on Middle Cliff and I suspect that the Speeton...
Further to my previous posts regarding the fine Oxyteuthis speicmen I found at Speeton. I now think that it is more likely to be Aulacoteuthis, either A.ernsti...
Hello, I am involved in organising Yorkshire Geology Month for May 2005. If anyone fancies leading a trip to Speeton please contatc me. best wishes, Mike...
I have added some pictures of some Speeton bits and pieces. Particularly interesting are the pyritic inclusions in the fossil wood. I am no Botanist but I...
Nice pictures. I know it is hard to tell from photographs - but - are you sure that it is a crinoid and not an uncoiling ammonite; could the things in the wood...
The crinoid is pentamerous in cross section - so I'm certain about that. I had wondered about the wood inclusions - I'll do some research on wood borers. Have...
... that. ... wood ... REPLY - there are some pictures on page 398 of Shrock and Twenhofel - but the best place to look would be the "The Treatise". Which beds...
The wood was in a slipped block at the southerly end of Middle Cliff along with some Hibolites - so C beds? Are the slipped blocks on the beach from the C...
Hello, The wery large fallen blocks are I think in the C6 C7 C8 range of beds. Depending on how much as been washed away since I last visited. I certainly...
went back this weekend and the good stratified exposure had gone, but there were some mashed-up (slumped) bits to be seen. That's Speeton for you! cheers, Mike...
Hi All, I too met Jack once. He was very helpful and knew the area incredibly well. He managed pull out a couple of giant Belemnites for my lad, most grateful....
Saturday 8th October - joint afternoon lecture meeting with Yorkshire Geological Society - looking at the work of G W Lamplugh and the progress made in local...
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Hello, Sadly, I have heard that Professor John Neale died on Friday 20th January (2006). John worked as a lecturer at Hull University, specialising in the ...
I have posted some pictures of a fossil I found in the boulder clay at Mappleton, south of the MOD ramp. It certainly looks like vertebrate bone material and...
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