Warwickshire has been a sea-bed in its time, with aeons-old, marine fossils found in geological exposures from north of Nuneaton to Burton Dassett. Today the county hosts a variety of ...
Many of us, especially those with children or grandchildren of a certain age, will be familiar with the hit children’s television series Teletubbies. Teletubbies ran for several hundred episodes over ...
The hills at the southern tip of Warwickshire, above Long Compton, are capped by beds of limestone of Middle Jurassic age, roughly 170 million years old. These formed as layers ...
The Middle Jurassic period, roughly 170 million years ago, saw a time when tropical waters made their mark on what is now central England. Shallow, clear seas spread over the ...
The Warwick Earthquake (September 23) was a mild tremor; one of many to have affected central England over geological time. Warwickshire is cross-crossed by many geological faults. Most of these ...
We occasionally experience falls of so-called Saharan dust in Warwickshire, when precipitation is combined with wind blowing from the south. This produces ‘dirty rain’ depositing splatters of dust which are ...
Warwickshire has one of the most varied selections of rocks in the country. It spans over 600 million years from the depths of the Precambrian period, with violent volcanic eruptions, ...
Look closely in your flower beds, local park or on your allotment and you’ll almost certainly find rounded pebbles of a smooth, fine-grained rock-type known as quartzite. They are actually ...
The county of Warwickshire boasts more than 20 geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) – selected for their geological features that demonstrate important aspects of the UK’s diverse geological ...