Showing posts with label Killinallen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Killinallen. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 November 2020

Latrigg, Keswick

 After going to Friars Crag yesterday, I went up Latrigg.... I can't remember having been up before and the views were good, despite the fact that the day was getting foggier. So, although rocky has been up it, it was another Wainwright for me. 

Looking over Keswick.

Derwentwater.

The flanks of Skiddaw and Bassenthwaite.

Skiddaw.

Atomspheric openings.

Receeding colours....

Admiring the view. 


Saturday, 9 November 2019

Fantastic Foraminifera

Tom has a new toy and some rather nice photographs!  Foraminifera from Killinallen - Click here for the day's walk. 

A mixture of shell and lithic fragments, foraminifera, ostracods and bryozoa.
Large white forams in the top/left are possible Massilina. 

Some of the small gastropods: purple and brown.


Beneath the purple gastropod is a ostracod. Ostracods are first represented in the fossil record in the Ordovician, and fossil ostracods can be found commonly in coal measure deposits, such as in Clyne Valley, Swansea. 

Foraminifera: possible Elphidium (the spiralled individual mid-left).

A mixture of forams, ostracods, and shell/lithic fragments.