Warwickshire Museum Service Geology Collection

Ancient Climate Change

Over the last 600 million years, Warwickshire has endured climate change on huge scales. Humid equatorial swamps, arid desert plains, warm seas, and ice sheets have helped to shape the modern landscape.

The geological evidence for ancient climate change is preserved as rock and fossil specimens within Warwickshire Museum's geological displays and collections, and as geological sites throughout the county.

		Warwickshire's Martian Past?
		250 million years ago, Warwickshire looked a little like the surface of Mars. Warwickshire's Martian Past?

		Fire and Ice
		Climate change in Warwickshire – from volcanoes to ice sheets. Fire and Ice

		Jurassic Climate Change
		Rock layers, Rugby Cement and climate change. The record of the rocks in our local quarries. Climate Change - Jurassic Style

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