| P number: | P521415 |
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| Caption: | Rock specimen of purple shale. Quarry at Clovenfords, about 3 miles west of Galashiels, Peeblesshire, Scotland. |
| Description: | The sample is a purple-brown coloured shale with distinctive markings on the bedding surface, attributed to the feeding trails of a fossil organism. The rock will be of Silurian in age. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number EMC3401. Fossil tracks, burrows or markings left by a living organism are termed 'trace fossils'. Strictly speaking they are sedimentary structures resulting from biological activity such as burrows, tracks, trails or footprints, and feeding trails. Trace fossils were made by the activity of an organism living on the surface of soft sediment. In most cases the actual organism responsible for the traces cannot be found, and the trace fossil is the only evidence left of its activity. |
| Date taken: | Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT 2002 |
| Photographer: | McTaggart, F.I. |
| Associate: | T.S. Bain |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | EMC3401 |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 242.33 KB; 1000 x 775 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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