hello, I am leading a trip to Speeton on Sunday 20th July as a tribute to Lynden Emery, who died earlier this year. Lynden inspired me to create the "Friends"...
I went on a "scouting outing" with another member of our club here in Alabama to check out some sites for future field trips. We went into an area of the...
Hi, I am a member of the Birmingham (Alabama) Paleontology club and am keen to know more about the York sites. I was in Whitby three years ago and picked a...
Hello to all "Friends of the Speeton Clay", I had an idea that it could be fun to actually have a "Friends" field trip to Speeton this summer. Is anyone...
Hello Fred Were are you?. I am on the East Coast of Yorkshire - England, if I can help I will do so. You may find more information for our area in the UK at...
hi, i am currently an A2 student in aid of some help with a geology project that i have to produce. i hope to analyse the tills on the coast and interpret the...
Friends may wish to know that the Palaeontolgy Society has made freely avaialble back issues of its Journal - a number of which would be of interest to Speeton...
Hello all Speeton erratics 'what you may say' but it's true, on the Holderness coast you find material from the Upper,Middle,Lower Jurrasic, Cretaceous,...
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...
Hello, Because of recent messages that were not relevant to the group I have reluctantly altered the settings so that messages from new members will be...
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 ...
Management positions are available in the engineering division of our client, a conglomerate of appreciable presence in the power generation/petrol and gas...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...