Research at the Lapworth Museum

Part of an internationally leading University, the Lapworth Museum of Geology facilitates a vast array of academic and student research, with over 800 publications utilising the collections to date.

2020 – Present

Rose, E. P. F. & Clatworthy, J. C. 2024. Mud and blood in the final months of World War II: ‘soil’ maps of north-west Germany that helped to guide British and Canadian Military Operations in Early 1945. The Cartographic Journal.
Larkin et al. 2024. In search of lost time: Recovering missing stratigraphical data from fossil marine reptile specimens using micropalaeontological analyses. Geological Curator, 11 (9): 583-589.
Dixon et al. 2024. Illuminating an uncatalogued micropalaeontological collection at the Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham. Geological Curator, 11 (9): 568-582.
Leidi et al. 2024. A new Late Ordovician bubble-headed trilobite species from South West Wales and its implications for biostratigraphy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 69(1): 57-72.
Dearden et al. 2023. The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium. Nature, 621: 782-787.
Loydell, D. K. 2020. Middle Telychian (Llandovery, Silurian) graptolites and biostratigraphy of the Howgill Fells, England, based upon the collections of D.W.R. Wilson housed in the Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 63 (1): 33-42.
Burke, V. 2020. It's geology time: Redesigning the Lapworth Museum of Geology. Journal of Science & Popular Culture, 3 (1): 81-101.

2020 – Present

2010 – 2019

2000 – 2009

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