The Jurassic
What's in a Name. If you want to know do read Alan Fyfe's article in The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 34 - Spring 2000 on The stages of the Jurassic: What have they to do with grasshoppers? In a few places his etymology differs slightly from http://homepage.boku.ac.at/h9440283/etyploc.htm (Etymology of geological time units) - so maybe you ought to read that as well.
The Jurassic in Luxembourg
| Stage | Situation in Luxembourg | ||
| Malm | Tithonian | ||
| Kimmeridgian | |||
| Oxfordian | |||
| Dogger | Callovian | ||
| Bathonian | |||
| Bajocian | Minette. | Coral reefs. Limestone quarries. | |
| Aalenian | Red sandstone, marl and oolithic iron ore. Iron mines. | ||
| Lias | Toarcian | Luxembourg at equator. | |
| Pliensbachian | Shallow tropical see. | ||
| Sinemurian | Gryphea fossils. | ||
| Hettangian | Opening of North Atlantic. Luxembourg sandstone in Luxembourg City and "Petite Suisse" (Little Switzerland) at Echternach. Building stone. | ||
Branch AGM and geology weekend in Luxembourg 2003
Looking at Luxembourg (Sandstone)
French Jura with OUGS Mainland Europe
The best
Jurassic outcrops in England are situated along the coast. At the South the
(East Devon and) Dorset Coast (often referred to as the Jurassic Coast,
altough in fact in covers most of the Mesozoic) and at the North East the Yorkshire
Coast.
In France and Switzerland the Jurassic is mainly characterized by a carbonate platform, while most of England was covered by a shallow epicontinental sea (at the margin of the Tethys Ocean).
The East
Devon and Dorset Coast.
(The Jurassic Coast)
Our review of The Official Guide to the Jurrassic Coast.
Another book from 2003 is Coast and Country, Geology Walks in and around Dorset, published by Dorset Geologists' Association Group
Dorset Rigs or DIGS, Dorset's Important Geological/Geomorphological Sites Group was formed to protect the availability of Dorset's geology for educational and recreational use.
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Staithes Harbour, Yorkshire. Lower Jurrassic, Staithes
Sandsstone Formation at Cowbar Nab. July 2003. |
The Yorkshire Coast
(The Dinosaur Coast)
On line field guide to Staithes - Middle Lias Ironstones and Shales – Geology of Part of the Yorkshire Coast.
The Coastline between Staithes and Port Mulgrave
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