Please let me know about any other web sites that might be included here, preferably relating in some way to West Sussex geology.

 

Geology web sites

• Geology of Britain viewer - geology maps from the British Geological Survey.
• Ian West - excellent introduction to many aspects of Wessex geology. Links are provided at the bottom of Ian's  homepage (after the pictures).
• Kent RIGS - includes ‘Wealden News’, the newsletter of Wealden geology.
• Eocene & Oligocene fossils - a useful site for identifying your Palaeogene fossils.
• UK Fossils Network - fossils and fossil collecting localities in the UK.
• British Chalk Fossils - apparently everything you wanted to know.
• Natural History Museum, London - the premier natural history museum in the UK.
• The Palaeontological Association - download backcopies of the journal (Vol 1, 1957 to Vol 41, 1998) free by selecting Publications then Palaeontology Online.
• Earth Heritage - web site for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Access the Geological Conservation Review Series and the magazine, Earth Heritage.
• Rory Mortimore talks on his lifetime studies on the Chalk of the South Downs - select the Chalk audio programme on this site.
• English Stone Forum - all about building stones, with a useful list of publications.

 

Archaeology web sites

 

• Sussex Archaeological Society
• Fishbourne Roman Palace

 

West Sussex web sites

 

• Chichester Harbour Conservancy
• Pagham Harbour Local Nature Reserve
• Friends of Shoreham Beach
• Bracklesham Bay Online

 

Others

 

• Google Flood - predicts coastline changes for sea level rises from +1m to +14m using Google Earth maps with NASA's digital elevation data. Fascinating stuff.

 

 

Please let me know of any other useful web sites that could be added here.