I always get excited when I come across things that reference fossils- my favourite Margery Allingham book mentions an ichthyosaur excavation - only in passing a couple of times – but enough to endear it to me. John Fowles’ ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ is also a favourite of mine – its set in Lyme Regis which is near where I grew up and one of my favourite fossil hunting haunts. Charles Dickens also mentions a Megalosaurus in the opening paragraph of Bleak House – this I’ve yet to read.

Recently I have come across songs featuring geology - the first 2 from They might be giants;

And this which I think I saw linked on Mountain beltway – be warned I cant get this song out of my head now!