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Description: Provides information on the fossilisation process in bivalves with photographs of a number of specimens from the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK.
Bivalve fossils are not as common and not as diverse as gastropods. They are most often found as pyrite casts in the accumulations on the beach. The shell is usually missing. This is due to wave action. However when fresh slips occur they can be found with their original shell still largely intact. Very occasionally they are preserved on phosphatic nodules or on or in septarian cement stones. Unless the shell is infilled with a substance that helps to retain the calcium content of the shell they do not preserve well. So the shell needs to be associated with pyrite, phosphatic material or cement stone to stand any chance of consolidated preservation. If the shell is not in contact with these substances it is often decalcified in the clay. If this is the case then on contact to a drying atmosphere the shell soon crumbles away.
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| Page title: | bivalves |
| Keywords: | Eocene, London Clay, Sheppey, fossils, collecting, Caenozoic, Ypresian, gastropods, bivalves, |
| Description: | Early Eocene, Ypresian, fossils of the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK. |
| IP-address: | 87.106.70.211 |
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| NS | Name Server: NS-UK.1AND1-DNS.BIZ Name Server: NS-UK.1AND1-DNS.CO.UK Name Server: NS-UK.1AND1-DNS.COM Name Server: NS-UK.1AND1-DNS.ORG |
| WHOIS | Status: ok |
| Date | Creation Date: 12-jan-2001 Expiration Date: 12-jan-2015 |