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Secrets in the Stone: Deep Time, Dinosaurs, and New Life at Cromhall Quarry

A wide, aerial photograph of Cromhall Quarry on a bright day. Sheer, layered rock cliffs surround a large, calm body of deep blue water. Green vegetation grows on the upper edges of the cliffs and fields surrounding the quarry.

The chiselled walls of Cromhall are the pages of a stone library, recording not one world, but two. The first is a tale of ancient, tropical seas that existed 350 million years ago. The second, hidden within the first, is a lost world of subtropical islands almost 100 million years later.

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