JET Project

An interesting article from @BritGeoSurvey bgs.ac.uk/news/the-prees… #borholes #jurassicrocks #geologyrocks @JET_Prees @icdpDrilling

How Prees' rocks inform scientists about Climate Change whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/19115001.…

ICDP Annual Report 2020 out now: bit.ly/3p4d8DQ

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

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

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

Indeed!

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just arrived at @JET_Prees @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. bit.ly/2WyFme6

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.

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