On 5th August 2010, Beth headed a walk in the vicinity of Runswick Bay and Port Mulgrave to look at the area’s industrial heritage and explore the scar for fossils.
The group meet at the bank top car park overlooking Runswick Bay.©Peter Appleton 2010.
View of Runswick Bay from the bank top.
View of Kettleness alum quarries from the Cleveland Way.
View of Kettleness and the cliffs from the scar at Lingrow. ©Peter Appleton 2010.
A large calcareous nodule, ubiquitous in the Whitby Mudstone Formation along these coastal exposures. ©Peter Appleton 2010.
Calcareous nodules usually form around organic remains. Within this nodule are the fossilised remains of what may be a marine reptile. ©Peter Appleton 2010.
Fossil wood leaves distinctive impressions on this iron-rich nodule. ©Peter Appleton 2010.
Remains of a zonal ammonite (Dactylioceras sp.) in the mudstone scar. ©Peter Appleton 2010.
Runswick Bay
On 5th August 2010, Beth headed a walk in the vicinity of Runswick Bay and Port Mulgrave to look at the area’s industrial heritage and explore the scar for fossils.
The group meet at the bank top car park overlooking Runswick Bay.
©Peter Appleton 2010.
View of Runswick Bay from the bank top.
View of Kettleness alum quarries from the Cleveland Way.
View of Kettleness and the cliffs from the scar at Lingrow.
©Peter Appleton 2010.
A large calcareous nodule, ubiquitous in the Whitby Mudstone Formation along these coastal exposures.
©Peter Appleton 2010.
Calcareous nodules usually form around organic remains. Within this nodule are the fossilised remains of what may be a marine reptile.
©Peter Appleton 2010.
Fossil wood leaves distinctive impressions on this iron-rich nodule.
©Peter Appleton 2010.
Remains of a zonal ammonite (Dactylioceras sp.) in the mudstone scar.
©Peter Appleton 2010.