300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, what is now Warwickshire lay just north of the Equator. The climate was hot and rather arid, as evidenced by the reddened, ...
The Ordovician Period is a division of geological time spanning the interval between about 490 and 445 million years ago. In some parts of Britain the Ordovician is represented by ...
The glistening chunk of coal in the photo is a sample of the Warwickshire Thick Coal, collected from the former Daw Mill Colliery near Arley. It is on display at ...
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, ...