{"id":4950,"date":"2016-08-31T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T09:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2016-08-31T09:34:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T09:34:20","slug":"rock-fossil-hunts-at-severn-valley-country-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2016\/08\/rock-fossil-hunts-at-severn-valley-country-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#038; Fossil Hunts at Severn Valley Country Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another two successful rock and fossil hunts round off a great summer of geology at Severn Valley County Park. Both days received a great turnout of young budding geologists, and with the industry experts on hand, it was no wonder the days were full of excitement and learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_135459_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4951 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_135459_resized-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"20160808_135459_resized\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_135459_resized-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_135459_resized-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_135459_resized-84x150.jpg 84w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_135459_resized-400x711.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_135459_resized.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The young fossil hunters identified different rocks such as Sandstone, Limestone, Coal, Dolerite and Quarts. Some were lucky enough to find fossilised plants and shells in their rocks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140512_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4952 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140512_resized-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20160808_140512_resized\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140512_resized-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140512_resized-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140512_resized-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140512_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140512_resized.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the pictures to see what they got up to<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_142914_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4953 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_142914_resized-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20160808_142914_resized\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_142914_resized-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_142914_resized-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_142914_resized-84x150.jpg 84w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_142914_resized-400x711.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_142914_resized.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140916_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4954 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140916_resized-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20160808_140916_resized\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140916_resized-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140916_resized-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140916_resized-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140916_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160808_140916_resized.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another two successful rock and fossil hunts round off a great summer of geology at Severn Valley County Park. Both days received a great turnout of young budding geologists, and with the industry experts on hand, it was no wonder the days were full of excitement and learning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The young fossil hunters identified different [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4956,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}