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Rocks and chalk bed @ low tide

at times we have a very low tide on the coast here with the north sea. These rocks and chalk bed then appears...its good fun as many Belemnite fossils come to ...
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at times we have a very low tide on the coast here with the north sea. These rocks and chalk bed then appears...its good fun as many Belemnite fossils come to light embedded in the chalk bed...Devils Thunderbolts are another name for them
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very nice!

absolutely beautiful, voted!!!

Love the colors and depth well done...VOTED !!!!

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Belemnites were similar to squid (see left). But modern squid have arms with suckers and belemnite arms carried a series of small hooks for grabbing prey.

Belemnites have always fascinated people with their strange shapes, and they have many names throughout the world.

In England, they were called thunderbolts, and they were supposed to fall from the sky during thunderstorms. They were also called bullets, Devil's Fingers or Saint Peter's Fingers.

In Scotland, they were known as botstones or bat stones. They were used to cure horses.

In Chinese, belemnites are known as Jien-shih (sword stones).

In some areas of Scandinavian, they are called vateljus (gnomes' candles).

In Germany, they are known as Alpschoß (nightmare shot), Fingerstein (finger stone), Gespensterkerze (ghostly candle) and Katzenkegel (cat's skittle).

The belemnite is the state fossil of Delaware, USA.