The old and the new. Kimmeridge bay on Britain’s Jurassic coast includes an outcrop of the
The old and the new.Kimmeridge bay on Britain’s Jurassic coast includes an outcrop of the Kimmeridge clay, the main source rock for North sea oil. This photo of a limpet waiting for high tide on an Ammonite fossil in the Blue Lias encapsulates well life’s great evolutionary cycle. When the water comes up in night’s high tide, the limpet detaches itself and bimbles around grazing on algae that grow on the rock.LozImage credit: Steve Trewhella/Alamy. -- source link
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