The rock is approximately 2.7 billion years old. Dark bands are iron oxides (magnetite, hematite) and yellow-orange bands are chert with iron oxide inclusions (jasper).

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The first person employed by the Natural History Museum as a professional fossil ... methods and for those where it’s necessary to remove all of the rock from around a specimen. While it has its ...

In January 2020, a team from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences and the Chinese ... “The paleontologists found hundreds of adult specimens of the basal ghost frog, the ancestor of frogs ...

Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London The mineral was discovered within a rock specimen that has been at the Natural History Museum in London since 1964 Cornwall has a rich mining history ...

This beginner's guide to identifying UK rock types explains the processes of rock formation and features a hand-specimen guide with examples of rock samples.

The National Museum of Natural History’s Invertebrate Zoology collection is home to some 50 million specimens that have ... Nestled under a rock on a sandy coastal tidal flat in Bahía de ...