JET Project

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

[Earth Science Partnership @ESPLtd1]

An interesting article from @BritGeoSurvey
https://t.co/ne1nVg0kqc
#borholes #jurassicrocks #geologyrocks @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling

[JET Project @JET_Prees]

How Prees' rocks inform scientists about Climate Change https://t.co/ooWyA5ri2p

[ICDP @icdpDrilling]

ICDP Annual Report 2020 out now: https://t.co/WJ2y1gsFQe

[Conall Mac Niocaill @conall_macn]

Exquisitely preserved Psiloceras from the Planorbis zone. Original aragonite shell still visible! @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling

[Prof Melanie Leng @MelJLeng]

The first batch of @JET_Prees samples for organic carbon isotope analysis are being decarbonated @BritGeoSurvey Thanks to @SavWorne @JackHLacey

[ICDP @icdpDrilling]

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 https://t.co/GvVlFxsPva

[JET Project @JET_Prees]

Indeed!

[WGCG @WGCG_UK]

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 ?

[Conall Mac Niocaill @conall_macn]

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)

[Conall Mac Niocaill @conall_macn]

With coring complete ⁦@JET_Prees⁩ ⁦@icdpDrilling⁩ we are wrapping up with downhole logging. Some festive weather as well!

[Tamsin Mather @tamsinmather]

It’s all about the PPE! @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling

[Tamsin Mather @tamsinmather]

A collection of Jurassic life seeing first light for almost 200 million years @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling

[Conall Mac Niocaill @conall_macn]

It might have been wet but the wait was worth it for @JbriJames and I. Look at these beauties! @icdpDrilling @JET_Prees

[Conall Mac Niocaill @conall_macn]

The glamorous side of scientific drilling: waiting in the sheeting rain as the next core is about to appear @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling

[Conall Mac Niocaill @conall_macn]

Lots of pyrite in the Lower Jurassic! ⁦@JET_Prees⁩ ⁦@icdpDrilling⁩

[Conall Mac Niocaill @conall_macn]

Klaxon alert- ⁦@JET_Prees⁩ ⁦@icdpDrilling⁩ are at 500m! A major milestone for the project.

[James Riding @JbriJames]

A full core barrel being taken out of the Prees borehole which is now drilling the Hettangian at around 520 metres! @JET_Prees

[Tamsin Mather @tamsinmather]

Just arrived at @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling

[ICDP @icdpDrilling]

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. https://t.co/IFsSMVZeE4

[Conall Mac Niocaill @conall_macn]

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.

[James Riding @JbriJames]

Really nice intraclast of laminated rock in the most recent core of Hettangian rocks from the prees borehole! @JET_Prees