This part of the North Sea, on the north Norfolk coast, is of course famous for its shellfish – such as Cromer crab (below) and Morston mussels, and is one of the better known sources of rock samphire – a delicious weed found on muddy marshland.
We show that the active rock glacier in the mineralized catchment of Lake Rasass (RAS) represents a potent source of acid rock drainage that results in enormous concentrations of metals in water, sediment, and biota of RAS.
Zircon Hf isotope and whole-rock geochemical data point to a primitive source of mafic rocks, most likely formed in Early Cambrian arc developed on Grenvillean basement.
In the Hercynian belt in Bavaria, detrital zircons have been dated to 3.84 billion years ago, but the source of those rocks is not known.
Dr Rob Ixer of Leicester University called the discovery of the source of the rocks "quite unexpected and exciting".
Hydrocarbons are generated from source rocks, source rocks are one of the essential elements to a petroleum system.
But one of the songs she did write is the source of one of rock and roll's strangest cover versions.
There's Dixie Evans (the "Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque") and Cynthia Plaster Caster (the ex-groupie famous for her from-the-source replicas of rock-star genitals).
