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Below is a key to the database specimen selection pages with illustrations showing the function of the elements of the main site navigation and the selection details areas

Main navigation

The NHM logo links to the Museum's 'Interactive' pages
Link to Earth lab datasite home page
Search categories that can be used to interrogate the database
  • categories in white are available for searching 
  • categories in grey have already been searched
NB Fossils includes a category 'identify' that allows identification of your own fossil specimens – use other search criteria to enhance the identification
Support features
  • 'help' – practicalities of using the database
  • 'activities' – suggestions how to investigate the database and geology-related activities for off-line study
  • 'resources' - recommended geology-related books, CD-ROMs and web sites, and submit a question to a Museum geological scientist
  • 'feedback' – help us to improve the datasite

Selection details

Shows the number of specimens you have selected
Indicates those categories used to make a selection
Back one step
Clears the search criteria by starting a new datasite query
Launches a new window from which the selected specimens can be viewed
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