Sharks tooth

The compression of time, a 40 million year old Eocene sharks tooth sees the light of day again on a sun drenched 21st century intertidal. I pick it up and I'm connected through millennia upon millennia directly with the past.

Sharks Tooth

Following on from that last post. This is what a good sized shark tooth looks like when recovered from the marine clay before in reaches the intertidal. 

Baby teeth

Fossils are continually eroding out of the ever seaward crawling cliff face, by the time they reach the intertidal virtually all of the fragile shells have fragmented and crumbled. Only the sharks teeth tend to survive. Although by the time you find them along the low tide line, unless you're very lucky, they're usually quite degraded. They've survived unscathed embedded in marine clays for 40 million years, though being rolled amongst the sand and pebbles for a few months soon wears them down...eventually to nothing. Still, even the degraded ones are cool, it's always nice to find something of that sort of age.

Sharks Tooth

40 million years ago this sharks tooth was swimming around a vast lagoon, doing shark stuff. Since then it entered the geological matrix, ceaselessly moved through said matrix bound in a layer of compressed lagoon bed, then eroded from its ancient bed, it was carried by surface water until today this tiny 9mm tooth found it's way on to the beach and into my hand.  Time's some crazy shit.