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Magic in the Rocks

"Magic in the Rocks", looks at the types of rocks where fossils can be found, from limestone, mudstone and sandstone to coal and amber. We travel from the Dorset coast to a quarry in Leicestershire then across the world to the Dominican Republic and Arizona and back to Glasgow and Edinburgh. We visit mines, petrified forests and swamps and laboratories where fossils are being extracted from their stony matrix, X-rayed, cat scanned and manipulated in 3D computer cross-sections.

English Magyar italiano
  • Originally Aired April 23, 1989
  • Runtime 40 minutes
  • Network BBC
  • Created May 29, 2014 by
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