Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world, Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae 6.  Meer

The Rhaetian Penarth Group includes the former Westbury Beds, Cotham Beds, and White Lias. This diverse suite of late Triassic sedimentary rocks is famous for the fossils that it yields, most notably from the bone beds.  Meer