Stuart Swann, the chairman of North East Yorkshire Geology Trust, will tell the story of our area during a four-million year slice of the Jurassic age on the Yorkshire Coast.

It is an opportunity for members of the public to bring fossils they have found to have them identified and possibly photographed.

The event is on a week tomorrow at Pannett Art Gallery in Whitby, from 7pm to 8pm.

South Bay in Scarborough (just past the Holbeck Hall landslip) is a classic example of middle Jurassic rocks.

They were originally part of a low-lying coastal plain which was home to a wide variety of life, including dinosaurs.

Dinosaur footprints are found everywhere along the Whitby coast.

They could not have existed, however, without the luxuriant plant life which covered our area at the time.

In South Bay, Stuart Swann and a colleague have collected more than 20 species of plant from groups such as Ferns, Ginkgos, Cycads and Conifers.

They are beautiful specimens which reveal the existence of luxuriant gardens in Scarborough and Whitby.

NE Yorkshire Geology Trust is a not-for-profit organisation involved in protecting the area's rich local geodiversity and sharing with as wide an audience as possible.

If you want to know more, join up, commission an event or make a donation, call (01947) 881000, email contact@neyorksgeologytrust.com or visit www.neyorksgeologytrust.com

All money raised goes to supporting the work of the Trust.