brachiopods Frampton Park & Dorchester Road

bivalves Dorchester Road

Bryozoans Frampton Park & Dorchester Road

Coral Frampton Park

Sponge Dorchester Road

Sea Urchins Frampton Park, Dorchester Road, Church Lane

HG

LK

JD

JW

Starfish Church Lane

Chalcedony Frampton Park

The fossils on this page have been found in the Frampton area by DS except where initials indicate otherwise. Photographs DS throughout

all signs of large scale geological disturbances some 25 Million years ago, Dorchester Road

ongoing natural  geological processes

Frampton Park and Dorchester Road, acid Tertiary deposits eat into the alkaline Chalk

geological processes some 10,000 years ago when ice ages ruled.  Winter freeze and summer thaw resulted in mass movement down slope

pebble bank in the Frome, always being shifted by the frequent high water events

soil creep & sand ripples

Church Bottom

other geological processes

a favourite mineralisation process of mine. I have collected samples from various parts of Dorset & from France

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man made erosional processes

building blocks of chalk & flint

Frampton Fossils

Frampton Index

Natural History Index

rock has moved against rock

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