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JET Project

@JET_Prees

Early Jurassic Earth Systems and Timescale (JET) - studying Earth's climate and environment about 200 million years ago.

 Based at Uni Exeter, Penryn UK
blogs.exeter.ac.uk/jet/
Joined July 2019
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An interesting article from @BritGeoSurvey bgs.ac.uk/news/the-prees-bor… #borholes #jurassicrocks #geologyrocks @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling
The Prees Borehole and the JET Project - British Geological Survey

The Prees Borehole and the JET Project - British Geological Survey

A recent borehole in Shropshire is unearthing new information about the chronology and environments of the Lower Jurassic

bgs.ac.uk
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How Prees' rocks inform scientists about Climate Change whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/…
How Prees' rocks inform scientists about Climate Change

How Prees' rocks inform scientists about Climate Change

THE rocks beneath Whitchurch and Prees have been helping scientists to understand secrets about what the UK’s environment might have been like between 201 and 174 million years ago.

whitchurchherald.co.uk
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ICDP@icdpDrilling9 Feb 2021
ICDP Annual Report 2020 out now: bit.ly/3p4d8DQ
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Exquisitely preserved Psiloceras from the Planorbis zone. Original aragonite shell still visible! @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
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The first batch of @JET_Prees samples for organic carbon isotope analysis are being decarbonated @BritGeoSurvey Thanks to @SavWorne @JackHLacey
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ICDP@icdpDrilling5 Jan 2021
Good work @icdpDrilling @JET_Prees team! The 656 m deep borehole finally cored Triassic-Jurassic boundary strata with overall high core quality and recovery very good to excellent! @NERCscience @CambSchMines @GSI_Exeter #Jurassicrocks #FossilFriday bit.ly/3rYUfVI
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Indeed!
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Wow. The Prees outlier, Shropshire. I first read about this in Arkell’s Jurassic System in Great Britain. Memory’s rusty bit succession goes as high as Pliensbachian @JET_Prees ?
And here it is... the Triassic Jurassic Boundary in the @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling borehole (the pale grey layer 14cm in from the left!). Merry Christmas to all! (Photo stitch by Dominika Szűcs)
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With coring complete ⁦@JET_Prees⁩ ⁦@icdpDrilling⁩ we are wrapping up with downhole logging. Some festive weather as well!
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
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It’s all about the PPE! @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling
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A collection of Jurassic life seeing first light for almost 200 million years @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling
Image from Tamsin Mather (@tamsinmather)
Image from Tamsin Mather (@tamsinmather)
Image from Tamsin Mather (@tamsinmather)
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It might have been wet but the wait was worth it for @JbriJames and I. Look at these beauties! @icdpDrilling @JET_Prees
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
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The glamorous side of scientific drilling: waiting in the sheeting rain as the next core is about to appear @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
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Lots of pyrite in the Lower Jurassic! ⁦@JET_Prees⁩ ⁦@icdpDrilling⁩
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
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Klaxon alert- ⁦@JET_Prees⁩ ⁦@icdpDrilling⁩ are at 500m! A major milestone for the project.
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James Riding@JbriJames20 Dec 2020
A full core barrel being taken out of the Prees borehole which is now drilling the Hettangian at around 520 metres! @JET_Prees
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Just arrived at @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling
Image from Tamsin Mather (@tamsinmather)
Image from Tamsin Mather (@tamsinmather)
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ICDP@icdpDrilling21 Dec 2020
A new dawn at the @icdpDrilling @JET_Prees drill site: top drive was fixed, drilling depth now at about 510 m. 81 cores so far. More lovely grey mudstone, ammonites suggest we are in the upper Hettangian, on the way towards Triassic. bit.ly/2WyFme6
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Some of the fruits of our labour ⁦@JET_Prees⁩ - Steve Hesselbo with the latest pallet of cores ready to go to the BGS core lab.
Image from Conall Mac Niocaill (@conall_macn)
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James Riding@JbriJames18 Dec 2020
Really nice intraclast of laminated rock in the most recent core of Hettangian rocks from the prees borehole! @JET_Prees
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