The Whitmore Point Member of the Moenave Formation: Early Jurassic Dryland Lakes on the Colorado Plateau, Southwestern USA

The Lower Jurassic Whitmore Point Member of the Moenave Formation in Arizona-Utah, USA, comprises fish- and coprolite-bearing shales, siltstones, sandstones, and minor limestones. These facies were deposited in ephemeral...

News and Reviews – Report of the Callovian Stage Task Group, 2013

Coral lumps in Early Kimmeridgian oyster shellbeds and oolites of Małogoszcz

Scleractinian corals occurring scarcely in the Lower Kimmeridgian [i]Actinostreon [/i](=[i]Lopha[/i], =[i]Alectryonia[/i]) shellbeds at Malogoszcz in the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland, are represented by abraded c...

New magnetostratigraphy and paleopole from the Whitmore Point Member of the Moenave Formation at Kanab, Utah

The entire Whitmore Point Member of the Moenave Formation was sampled in close stratigraphic sequence (+0.3 m) from a vertical exposure in southwestern Utah. The polarity sequence in the Whitmore Point Member is essentia...

Jurassic Global Stratotype Section and Points (GSSPs) – a potential serial World Heritage Site?

The Operation Guidelines for the UNESCO World Heritage Convention state that proposed areas should: “...be outstanding examples representing major stages of Earth’s history, including the record of life”, “...contain all...