The Blue Nile Basin, situated in the Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau, contains 1400 m thick Mesozoic sedimentary section underlain by Neoproterozoic basement rocks and overlain by Early–Late Oligocene and Quaternary volcanic rocks. This study outlines the stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Blue Nile Basin based on field and remote sensing studies along the Gorge of the Nile. The Blue ...

s Volume for the Krakow Congress (in Volumina Jurassica no. 4, 2006). The Working Group members were then asked in a two-point ballot: (1) That the Flodigarry section, Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland be proposed as the GSSP section; (2) Either that the Pictonia flodigarriense Horizon or the Pictonia densicostata Horizon should be the primary marker for recognition and correlation of the bas...

There are a number of fundamental problems in assessing the astronomically forced cyclostratigraphy of the Jurassic Period. First, Jurassic geochronology is not well constrained, due to a general scarcity of radiometric dates, inferior precision of the existing ones, and large inaccuracies in stratigraphic constraints. These problems are particularly troublesome in the Early to Middle Jurassic ...

Two multituberculate molars from the Kimmeridgian of the Langenberg Quarry near Goslar (Lower Saxony, Germany) represent the first Jurassic mammals from Germany. An upper M1 with cusp formula 5L/4B is characterized by strongly ornamented enamel and is assigned to Teutonodon langenbergensis gen. et sp. n. within the plagiaulacid line. A second specimen preserving two large and one small cusp is ...

base and precious metals associated with porphyry, epithermal and acid sulphate or high-snlphidation hydrothermal systems (Panteleyev, 1992; Panteleyev and Koyanagi, 1993, 1994). The majority of these systems are associated with the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and Early Jurassic B O M ~ Group rocks. The regional mapping component of this study focused primarily on potential t...

The evolution of birds is thought to have begun in the Jurassic Period, with the earliest birds derived from theropod dinosaurs. Birds are categorized as a biological class, Aves. The earliest known species of class Aves is Archaeopteryx lithographica, from the Late Jurassic period, though Archaepteryx is not commonly considered to have been a true bird. Modern phylogenies place birds in the di...

Light Years : Jurassic Coast is a three dimensional temporal arena of a UNESCO world heritage site. A mixture of both old and new, hybrid techniques that combine characteristics of painting, drawing, computer animation, landscape data and immersive VR. Inside this virtual space is a topographical landscape of the Jurassic Coast in three dimensions. LY:JC uses technology normally associated with...

A new homolodromioid, Tanidromites maerteni, the earliest member of the genus and family, is recorded from the lower upper Bajocian (Niortense Zone) of Calvados, northwest France. It is noted that carapace morphologies of other Jurassic brachyuran taxa within the family Prosopidae are closely similar to those of tanidromitids, and that diagnoses of recently erected Jurassic families and genera ...

The traditional method for creating 3D landscape models is manually assembled plaster models. For the Jurassic Coast model I have employed a CNC computer numerically controlled milling machine. CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) routing is a way of machining an object directly from (Computer Aided Design) data with a sharp, fast moving tool bit. I am working with geospatial data of the Juras...