Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale
Project Acronym: JET | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5065
JET recovered a complete Early Jurassic sedimentary record at the site Prees, located in the Cheshire Basin (Shropshire, England), and close to a former oil and gas exploration well.
The team recovered approximately 630 m of primarily latest Triassic to Early Jurassic Strata, including the Jurassic-Triassic boundary. This new section is ideal for an integrated study: astrochronology, chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and magnetostratigraphy which, combined with data being generated from the old Mochras core (from Wales) will become the international standard for these 25 million years of Earth history.
Keywords: Europe, United Kingdom, Mochras, Earth System, Jurassic, Timescale
Cores are stored at British Geological Survey, National Geological Repository, UK
Project Management
Contact Person
Lead PIs
PIs: No data found
CoPIs
- Bas van de Schootbrugge – University of Utrecht
- Claire M. Belcher – University of Exeter
- Christian Bjerrum – University of Copenhagen
- Daniel Condon – British Geological Survey
- Conall Mac Niocaill – University of Oxford
- Crispin Little – University of Leeds
- Linda Hinnov – George Mason University
- James Riding – British Geological Survey
- Kenneth Miller – Rutgers University
- Timothy Lenton – University of Exeter
- Melanie Leng – British Geological Survey
- Robert Newton – University of Leeds
- Paul Wignall – University of Leeds
- Simon Poulton – University of Leeds
- Thomas Wonik – LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics
Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale (JET) (JET)
- Proposed in:
- 2015
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Triassic/Jurassic
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- n.a.
- Drilled length:
- 720.62 m (3 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 632 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 616.95 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 97.6%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 85.6%
- Expedition #
- 5065
- Location
- Europe, United Kingdom, England, Prees, United Kingdom
- Coordinates
- 53.0000, -3.0000
- Status
- Completed
Project Location
Project Timeline
Moratorium
31. August 2021 -1. September 2024
Sampling Party
Drilling
8 November - 27 December 2020
Full Proposal Approved
First Full Proposal Submitted
Workshop Held
16 - 23 March 2013 in Oxford, United Kingdom