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Field Trip to Northern Spain 29th July - 5th August 2000
Part 2 Days 4 to 7

This trip was led by Professor Andy Gale

All photographs © Di Clements

Day 4 - Free day. The amazing Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao protected by the floral pussy

Day 4 - Lower Cretaceous rudist limestone is a common building stone in Bilbao

Day 5 - Sue desperate to touch the K-T boundary at Zumaya (protected by Paul)

Day 5 - Searching for soles amongst the Danian trubidites at Zumaya

Day 5 - Soles found at last

Day 5 - Even Andy got excited over the rare echinoid trace: Scolicia, found at Zumaya

Day 6 - Through the green, wet Cretaceous scarp and out onto the arid Miocene plane of the Rioja Bodegas

Day 7 - The wide ‘bare’ beach at Galizano

Day 7 - This is what it’s all about! Lunch-time tapas at Castro Urdiales

Day 7 - Irvine enjoying the shade of the Planes at Castro Urdiales

 

 

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