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Geological Wonders: Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway
When I was a little lad, growing up in London, my first great loves were geology and paleontology. After high school I went to work for an American oil exploration company based in the UK. Although I was lucky to have such employment before I even had a college degree, I quickly realized that research…
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In Search of a 400 Million Year-Old Trilobite with Crystal Eyes
It may sound like the tag line for a not very engaging fantasy film, but read on. Some years ago I journeyed from New York to Ohio, by road, with my great friend Allan Lang, a noted paleontologist, meteorite collector and founder of the Langheinrich Fossil Preserve. Our destination was a private, working quarry in…