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Country diary: To the old quarry, for a Triassic quest

乡村日记:前往旧采石场,进行三叠纪探险

Storeton Wood, formerly a quarry, has oak, beech and silver birch trees.

Storeton Wood, formerly a quarry, has oak, beech and silver birch trees.

2026-03-03  372  简单
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Back then, the creature’s world may have been a lake in a hot, Europe-wide desert, the muddy edges preserving its impressions. Eventually, slabs featuring the footprints were dispatched to several museums, and the Liverpool Natural History Society (sadly now defunct) offered 20 shillings to be distributed “among the workmen of the quarry” for their find. The quarry, long infilled by spoil from the construction of the first Mersey tunnel, is now invisible, but deep time caught up with the millennium when a replica Chirotherium was engraved on the wall surrounding the wood, to celebrate the discovery.

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