SO9391 : Wren's Nest - Coral Reef

near to Dudley, Great Britain

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Wren's Nest - Coral Reef
Wren's Nest - Coral Reef
This is part of the western limb of the anticline, formed from many beds of Silurian period Wenlock limestone. Rich in paleozoic fauna including the rare 'Dudley bug' a trilobite. Famous geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison studied the fossils here.
The limestones were uplifted in the Caledonian and the Variscan orogenies (400 and 330ma).
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2011
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Thursday, 24 March, 2011   (more nearby)
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Thursday, 24 March, 2011
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Rock Feature > Fossils   (more nearby)
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 937 916 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:31.3722N 2:5.6304W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SO 937 916
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North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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