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Barry, Vale of Glamorgan: Geology & History/Archaeology

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Dock, Barry, Bendrick

Tea green marls west of railway tunnel through head to Whitemoor Bay xxx double Fault. Barry Dock. 1983

Date: 1983

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Dock, Barry, Bendrick

Crinoidal carboniferous limestone, tip of Nell's Point (and see Flat Holm set). August 1983

Date: August 1983

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Barry unconformity.Friars Point from west. Horizontal Trias, tilted Carboniferous Limestone

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Barry. Unconformity. Triassic Breccias on Carboniferous Limestone

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Fossil Corals from Carboniferous Limestone of Friars Point. Barry. 1 big one is 4½inch X 2inch ? Zaphrentis or Caninia. 13th May 1969

Date: 13/05/1969

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Left Crinoids right Corals Syringopora or Lithostrotion. Carboniferous Limestone. Barry Island cliffs. 13th May 1969

Date: 13/05/1969

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Fossil sea mats (Bryozoans) with Sea Lilies (Crinoids) Friars's Pont Barry Island. Carboniferous limestone. 13th May 1969

Date: 13/05/1969

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Blocky crystals from crumbling vein of Calcite in Carboniferous Limestone outside Barry Old Harbour. 13th May 1969

Date: 13/05/1969

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Barry Yacht Club cliffs

Coal fossils in sea wall. Barry Docks. October 1979

Date: 1979

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Crinoidal carboniferous limestone with coral. Nell's Point Barry, West of docks. August 30th 1983

Date: 30/08/1983

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Trias at Barry Bendrick( by river)

Triassic Rocks. Barry Old Harbour unconformity. Red sandy marl of keuper series and similar textured grey rather shaly limestone from thinner beds. More like lias than ordinary more massive carboniferous limestone. 13th May 1969

Date: 13/05/1969

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Trias at Barry Bendrick( by river)

Fossil Ostrea liassica. Oysters in lowest level of Blue Lias limestone. Lavernock. November 1968
Marys species name: Oysters
Scientific name: Ostrea edulis
Common name: Common Oyster

Date: November 1968

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Barry Docks barnacles and old timbers

Differential erosion of annual rings. Barry Dock. August 1979

Date: August 1979

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Barry cliffs, Cowslips, 2001

Fault in trias base of Nell's Point Barry red and green marls. 16th November 1968.

Date: 16/11/1968

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre (SEWBReC)
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