Fossils and Geology of Yaverland, Isle of Wight. Fossil Collecting & Geological Guides

Location Information
	This location has been classified as 'Medium', although lots of fossils can be found, you will often need the right conditions. Fossils can often be found by splitting the bone bearing hard cement beds. Yaverland is full of plants and fish.
	(Suitable for Children) Yaverland is ideal for families, and suitable for children. The close parking with toliets an care together with a nice clear sandy beach would make an ideal day out.
	Access to Yaverland is excellent, parking right near to the location.Toliets a cafe and even a zoo is right near you.
	Foreshore, Cliff Most of the fossils are found on the Foreshore, you just simply pick them up, but they can also be found in the cliff.
ACCESS RIGHTS	There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted.

The tidal conditions for this location are dangerous. Sometimes double tides affect this coast. You MUST return before the tide turns and MUST check out tide times before you visit. It is very easy to become cut off.

You must also take care if walking over the slippages, these can be very sticky and you may get stuck.

Other Similar Locations to Yaverland

From the West Melbury Chalk, you could also try these locations; Eastbourne; Yaverland; Rocken End

Other locations that have Upper Greensand are; Folkestone; Charmouth; Golden Cap (Seatown); Thorncombe Beacon ; White Nothe; Chippel Bay ; Eastbourne ; Yaverland ; Rocken End.

Other locations that have Gault Clay are; Folkestone; Speeton; Charmouth; Golden Cap (Seatown) ; Thorncombe Beacon ; Eastbourne ; Yaverland ; Rocken End

For collecting from The Wealden Group, you could try Hastings and Fairlight in Sussex or Bexhill.

If you enjoy splitting the hard bone bearing cement beds, the Triassic Rhaetic Beds may be of interest. For example Aust in Avon or you can also try Blue Anchor in Somerset. Other good locations include Hock Cliff which is along along the River Severn, this time in Gloucestershire. Another famous location is Lavernock or Penarth both in South Wales. The Lilstock Formation at Lilstock also yields remains similar to Aust, also part of the Rhaetian.

For collecting fossils from the Atherfield Clay, Vectis Formation and Wessex Formation. You can also try Shepherds Chine , Brook Bay and Brighstone Bay

Stone Tumblers (Lapidary)

Microscopes

Test Sieves for Particle Analysis

Stone Tumblers are used for tumbling and polishing rough rock, stones and pebbles including those found on the beach and glass.

Whilst collecting fossils, on those days where you come back empty handed, you could collect rocks, stones and glass from the beach and tumble then at home.

These are all high quality machines to give a professional finish to your samples. The tumblers can be used with a variety of grits, most commonly Silicon Carbide Grit and Cerium Oxide. We have a wide range of rough rocks for sale too.

Microfossils are much easier to collect because they are so small that the vast majority of collections only concentrate on large finds. These small finds can simply be found by taking small samples of sands, crags, clays and soft rocks and examining them under a microscope.

We have a wide range of microscopes for sale, both for the study of fossils, but also educational and professional for use in the laboratory. We have Stereo microscopes, Compound Microscopes, Polarising Microscopes and Monocular Microscopes.

We have thousands of Test Sieves for Particle Analysis.

Endecotts Sieves: For accurate dependable results you can't buy a better test sieve than Endecotts. At every stage of manufacture each test sieve is individually inspected.

High Precision Tecan manufactures precision apertures as small as 3 microns for a wide array of applications such as filtering, sieving and nozzles. Its high-performance, ASTM/ISO compliant test sieves satisfy the most demanding fine particle grading requirements.

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Yaverland Isle of Wight Geological Guide and Geology Info

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Yaverland
Isle of Wight Geological Guide and Geology Info