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Newsletter 30 INTERNATIONAL SUBCOMMISSION ON JURASSIC STRATIGRAPHY Newsletter 30 Edited by Nicol Morton and Paul Bown July 2003 CONTENTS Page CHAIRMAN’S REPORT, Nicol Morton 1 REPORT ON 6th INTERNATIONAL JURASSIC SYMPOSIUM, Luca Martire 2 REPORT ON JURASSIC SUBCOMMISSION MEETING, Nicol Morton 3 NEW MEMBER OF JURASSIC SUBCOMMISSION, Nicol Morton 4 REPORT ON MEETING OF INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON STRATIGRAPHY, Future directions in stratigraphy, Felix Gradstein, Jim Ogg 5 FUTURE MEETINGS 2nd Colloquium on Moroccan Jurassic (CJM2), April 2004, Marrakesh, Morocco, 6 32nd International Geological Congress, August 2004, Florence, Italy. Session on Jurassic Geology 7 REPORTS OF STAGE WORKING GROUPS Triassic/Jurassic Boundary (Hettangian), Geoff Warrington 8 Pliensbachian, Christian Meister 13 Toarcian, Serge Elmi 14 Bathonian, Sixto Fernandez Lopez 15 Callovian, John Callomon 15 Oxfordian, Guillermo Melendez 16 Kimmeridgian, Andrzej Wierzbowski 18 Tithonian, Guenter Schweigert 19 REPORTS OF THEMATIC WORKING GROUPS Geoconservation, Kevin Page 20 Liaison, Robert Chandler 23 CORRESPONDENCE Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary ammonite correlations, Bronislaw Matyja, Andrzej Wierzbowski 25 Latest Jurassic Stage nomenclature, John Cope 27 Managing the "Jurassic Coast" World Heritage Site, Richard Edmonds, Jonathan Larwood 28 German Jurassic Subcommission, report for 2002, Gert Bloos, Gerd Dietl 30 Jurassic Tectonics and Geosites frameworks of Bulgaria, Platon Tchoumatchenko 31 Report on Jurassic research and symposia in Japan, Akira Yao 34 Jurassic in Shan Thai Project, Thailand, Francis Hirsch 34 Report on Research Group activities, Emile Pessagno 35 Watch the ending - superfamilies, John Cope 37 References on Jurassic of China, Jingeng Sha 37 OBITUARIES Bill SARJEANT, Geoff Warrington 38 Henri TINTANT, Christianne Ruget 39 Michael HOUSE, Malcolm Hart 41 ISJS NEWSLETTER 30: 1 FROM THE CHAIRMAN the Subcommission. It remains for minor revisions to Nicol MORTON improve the proposal to be completed before submission to ICS. The Pliensbachian Working There is in several ways a four-year cyclicity in the Group under the Convenor Christian Meister are workings of the Jurassic Subcommission. The thanked and congratulated for all their hard work on Executive (i.e. Chairman, Vice-Chairman and this. Great progress has also been made with most Secretary) and the Voting Members are appointed by other Stages and some Working Groups are now close IUGS for a (renewable) four-year term of office, which to completion of selection of a GSSP and preparation is the interval between International Geological of a proposal. All the successful proposals so far have Congresses, in 2000, 2004, 2008 etc. However, for taken many years to come to fruition - more years than most of us by far the most important part of the four- are now available to meet the IUGS deadline of year cycle are the International Jurassic Symposia, ratification (NOT submission) before the 2008 now timed to be approximately mid-way between International Geological Congress. IGCs, in 2002, 2006, etc. Before then there will be the 32nd International This past year has seen the climax of our current cycle, Geological Congress in Florence, Italy, in August with the superb 6th International Symposium on the 2004. All the Subcommissions were encouraged by Jurassic System held in September 2002 in Mondello, ICS to propose "special" sessions for this. In what I Sicily. We are all very grateful to our Italian hope will not prove to be a rash moment of colleagues in the Organising Committee, under the "inspiration" (or whatever else it was!) I suggested that Chairmanship of Giulio Pavia (Torino), for all their the Jurassic Subcommission could organise a session hard work in the highly successful preparation and with the title 'Jurassic World - Outside the Park'. organisation of this great gathering of, to use John Somewhat to my surprise this was accepted. I give Callomon's phrase, the Jurassic family. He is right - more information about this later in the Newsletter and the friendly atmosphere of these Symposia makes I hope that many of you will be able to make them the most enjoyable of events. The Conference scientific contributions to what could be a high-profile Secretary, Luca Martire, has given an excellent report event. on the Symposium in this Newsletter. Apart from our memories there are permanent souvenirs already The Jurassic Subcommission is a body of the published in the form of the Abstracts volume, the International Commission on Stratigraphy and so of Field Guide to the excursions and the two Gemmellaro the International Union of Geological Sciences. We volumes. These will be joined soon by the are, therefore, governed by new statutes ratified last Symposium Proceedings. The stronger emphasis on year (February 2002) by IUGS. Some aspects of these thematic issues over biostratigraphic contributions are discussed, with authority, by Geoff Warrington compared with the early Symposia demonstrates the [who is also Secretary of the Triassic Subcommission] changes of direction which are under way in activities in his report for the Triassic/Jurassic Boundary (and associated with the Jurassic Subcommission. It is Hettangian) Working Group (sorry, Task Group) I interesting to report in this Newsletter that the decided not to include these Statutes in this Newsletter International Commission on Stratigraphy is now because there are already many other things to report - following us! you can consult them on the ICS website ( www.stratigraphy.com) . For the present I have also In Mondello the location of the 7th International not adopted (with this one exception) some of the Symposium on the Jurassic System in 2006 was "cosmetic" changes such as the introduction of (to me decided by open vote during the Subcommission inappropriate) American company terminology so that meeting, also reported in this Newsletter. There was a Working Groups and their Convenors become Task clear majority in favour of this being held in Poland Groups with Chairpersons. and Andrzej Wierzbowski (Warszawa) has been asked by the Subcommission to become Chairman of the As with any family there are from time to time sad Organising Committee for this event. We can all look events to report. Since the publication of the last forward to a visit to Poland during dates to be arranged. Newsletter we have lost two highly respected members of the Jurassic Subcommission - Bill Sarjeant (Voting Second place in the vote went to China. Perhaps the Member) and Henri Tintant (Honorary Member). They vote next time, in Poland, will be for the 8th Jurassic are remembered by obituaries in this Newsletter (p. 38- Symposium in 2010 to be held in China. This would 42). I have personal memories of both. confirm the international nature of the Subcommission's activities. In Bill's case it dates from the William Smith Symposium in Britain in 1969, when I remember Biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy must always being very impressed by a little notebook he proudly remain as the strong foundation for research on showed me in which he had made notes and given a Jurassic geology, with the programme of star rating to all the malt whiskies he had sampled, and establishment of GSSPs for the Jurassic System and this came to about 200 I think. This kind of study has all the Series and Stages as the main priority at been carried out to a lesser extent by a few of us, but I present. Three - Sinemurian, Aalenian (and Middle don't know anyone else who, like Bill, followed his Jurassic) and Bajocian have already been ratified by own teaching and recorded it all properly in his (field) IUGS and the proposal for the fourth, Pliensbachian, notebook. has been formally approved by the Voting Members of ISJS NEWSLETTER 30: 2 With Henri the occasion was during a lunch break in (France, 1991), Mendoza (Argentina, 1994) and the Jurassic Symposium in Stuttgart (Rosenstein) in Vancouver (Canada, 1998). At first, these meetings 1977. A large group of us, of various nationalities, were mainly dominated by biostratigraphers, and of was sitting round the table when Henri explained the course chiefly ammonitologists, of the Jurassic significance of stratigraphy to wines in France, and Subcommission who gathered regularly to compare, especially the consequences of changing stage correlate and integrate biostratigraphic scales from definitions. The wine Chablis was defined by (inter different parts of the world with the final goal of alia) the fact that the vineyards were established on the defining GSSP’s for the Jurassic Stages. Increasingly, Kimmeridgian. After the 1967 Luxembourg however, the ISJS meetings have become broader in Symposium when the French version of scope so that the focus is not a discipline or a Kimmeridgian was modified to follow the "new" geographical area or a palaeontological group, but a international agreement, this definition of Chablis had time period with all its aspects. This has made to be modified to ensure that inferior wines grown on scientists from very different fields of Earth Sciences - Kimmeridgian limestones were excluded. So the new from micropalaeontology to tectonics, from sediment- definition specifies the Kimmeridgian marls. Later, ology to geophysics - but all with a strong common Henri explained to me that all French Appelation interest, the Jurassic, meet regularly in a really widely Controllé wines are governed by a Commission and international and multidisciplinary environment. The that by law each must have a geologist as member. As result has been lively and fertile discussions. Professor in Dijon he was the geologist on several commissions and so had a rather good wine cellar, so I After two sessions in the New World, the ISJS should visit him sometime. Much later I discovered returned to Europe for the 6th Symposium, organized that he was also a superb chef, so one of my great by Giulio Pavia (Torino University) as President. It regrets in life is that I never had the opportunity of was held in Sicily (southern Italy) at the Centro visiting him at home.
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