Fossil Hunt in Bedfordshire
Channel: Darwinsgift
Date: 2011-05-22

Another fossil hunt in the Cretaceous chalk of Bedfordshire (99-89 million years ago) which was a shallow sea. These rocks were formed from the build up of microscopic carbon sea life that settled like dust as they died. In a deep sea they would have dissolved yet here they fossilised.

Houghton Quarry is an abandoned Quarry formerly used to extract chalk for a cement works on site. Quarrying stopped about 40 years ago but only parts are overgrown, leaving an enormous amount of clean chalk and a good amount as boulders on the quarry floor.