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Vacation Explorers from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 10 months ago 4 years, 10 months ago4 years, 10 months agoIf you’re ever in Scotland, it is worth a visit to “Tràigh á Chorail” – Coral Beach, on the Isle of Skye. The “sand” that you walk on is not sand at all, but the bleached skeletons of a coraline seaweed known as Maërl. Some (living) Maërl beds are up to 8000 years old, and it grows at a pace of around 1 mm per year! Maybe not technically a fossil, but worth the trip anyway! Skye is locally known as “Dinosaur Island”, and I’m not doing it justice in this brief sentence, but for fossil-lovers, the rest of the island is not to be missed! #fossil
I did a study abroad for a few months in Scotland. Sadly, I was unable to make it over to Skye. But I did do some collecting in Abberlady which is in the eastern part of the country.
@Mackenzie-Smith just south of Edinburgh? I haven’t been down that way before, what type of stuff did you find?
@teddy-reeves it’s actually east of Edinburgh. It’s marine and Carboniferous. Bryozoans and Lithostrontian corals (which are a colonial rugose coral). Pretty cool! You can surface collect but not dig into the layers.