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CPC-2014 Third Circular
- with lecture and excursion program -
Field Meeting on Carboniferous and Permian Nonmarine – Marine Correlation 21 – 27 July 2014, Freiberg, Germany
Best exposed continuous late Permian (Zechstein) - Early Triassic (Bunter) section in Europe!
Objectives A look at the current International Geological Time Scale shows that nearly all marine stage boundaries of the Carboniferous and the Permian are ratified or will be ratified in the very near future. But nearly nothing is known about the correlation of the system and stage boundaries into the vast continental deposits on the CP Earth. However, the Late Carboniferous and Permian was a time of extreme continentality because of an exceptional low sea level in Earth’s history, comparable only to the Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene modern world. Of the two largest components of the Palaeozoic supercontinent Pangea, Gondwana covered an area of about 73 million km2, but was capped by epicontinental seas for only about 15%, while Laurasia had about 65 million km2
and about 25% coverage by epicontinental seas. This means that most of the preserved deposits of this time with many economically interesting resources (mainly coal, natural gas, salt and other minerals) are in continental successions. It was the time of full terrestrialisation of life and the time when by the end of the Middle and the Late Permian the most severe mass extinction occurs in both the marine and terrestrial ecosystems. To understand the processes and their interrelations
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in the geo- and biosphere of this time, we need an exact stratigraphic control and an exact correlation of marine and nonmarine deposits. Consequently, there is an urgent need to focus future activities of both the subcommissions on marine – nonmarine correlation. Therefore, last year, during the International meeting on the Carboniferous and Permian Transition in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the chairs of the Subcommissions on Carboniferous and on Permian Stratigraphy, Barry Richards and Shuzhong Shen, agreed to organize a joint working group on the global correlation between Carboniferous and Permian marine and nonmarine deposits. As the kickoff for this working group, a Field Meeting on Carboniferous and Permian Nonmarine – Marine Correlation will be held at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany from July 21 to July 27, 2014. Topics The aim of the meeting is to bring together all colleagues who are interested in the correlation of Carboniferous, Permian and Early Triassic continental deposits with the global marine scale. The subject of the meeting will be the use of any and all correlative age-relevant data from marine and nonmarine deposits for the solution of the above mentioned problem. In particular, the workers from the various continental basins are asked to promote their detailed local and regional knowledge toward our global aims. Reports about methods, results and perspectives of nonmarine as well as nonmarine – marine intra-basinal and inter-basinal correlation as well as of global correlation are requested. First of all, we will use the meeting to develop cooperative research projects for the solution of central problems, which are suited to raise funds from various national and international sources for the realisation of our aims. Program July 20, 2014 arrival in Freiberg, icebreaker July 21 and July 22, 2014: Scientific Sessions July 21 after the scientific session a SPS and SCS business meeting together with a meeting of the Sino-German Cooperation Group on Late Palaeozoic Palaeobiology, Stratigraphy and Geochemistry will be held. July 23 until July 27, 2014: 5 days field excursion to the most important Carboniferous and Permian outcrops in eastern Germany and the Czech Republic, including Permian–Triassic transitional profiles. See p. 6 et seqq. Organizers Jörg W. Schneider: [email protected] Spencer G. Lucas: [email protected] Olaf Elicki: [email protected] Scientific organizing committee Shuzhong Shen (China, Chairman of the Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy), Barry Richards (Canada, Chairman of the Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy), Lucia Angiolini (Italy, Secretary of the Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy), Manfred Menning (Chairman of the German Commission on Stratigraphy), Hans Kerp (Germany, Co-leader of the Sino-German cooperation project), Ralf Werneburg (Germany), Sebastian Voigt (Germany), Ronny Rößler (Germany), Stanislav Oplustil (Czech Republic), Ausonio Ronchi (Italy; voting member SPS), Hafid Saber (Morocco), Valeryi Golubev (Russia)
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Local organizers Frank Scholze and Frederik Spindler (Freiberg / Germany), Karel Martinek and Richard Lojka (Prague / Czech Republic) Registration fee The meeting registration fee will cover costs of reception, coffee and tea breaks, and lunch during the scientific sessions and conference materials. The field-excursion fee will cover costs of transportation, accommodation, packed lunches, and guidebook. Participants are required to pay registration fee by bank transfer until May, 10th, 2014 (for transfer data see below). Only in exceptional case, it will be accepted to pay the registration fee at the meeting registration desk with a supplementary surcharge (in such cases, please, consult the organizers before). Fee for the scientific session in Freiberg (20.07. – 22.07.2014): 60.00 € Excursion fee eastern Germany – Czech Republic (23.07. – 27.07.2014): 360.00 € Transfer the fee to: Förderkreis Freiberger Geowissenschaften e.V. IBAN: DE12870520003115015010 BIC: WELADED1FGX (Sparkasse Mittelsachsen) Please indicate for purpose: Freiberg Field Meeting 2014 Registration - pre-registration deadline: 01.04.2014 - registration deadline and payment of fees extended to: 10.05.2014 Accommodation Hotel reservation in Freiberg for the 20th to the 23rd of July, 2014, has to be arranged by yourself! We have the option for accommodation (pre-reservation) with special discount at four-star Hotel Kreller (http://www.hotel-kreller.de, Fischerstrasse 5, D-09599 Freiberg: [email protected], booking code: Prof. Schneider) - double room: 70 € (15 pre-reserved but more are available) - single room: 55 € (5 pre-reserved) - pre-reservation deadline: 30. May 2014 - e-mail: [email protected] Code Name: Prof. Schneider (room payment is not included in the meeting fee) Excursion program – for details see p. 6 et seqq. July, 23-24, 2014 - Czech Republic – classical outcrops of the Central European continental Late Carboniferous and Early Permian in the well-studied Krkonoše Piedmont basin and Bohemian basin: basin development, palaeoclimate and fossil content of Late Westphalian (Moscovian) to early Permian (Asselian–Artinskian) continental gray and red beds. July, 25-27, 2014 - Germany – classical outcrops of the Central European Late Carboniferous and Permian as well as the Early Triassic of the Thuringian basin and the Thuringian Forest Mountains: Late Carboniferous (Stephanian, Gzhelian) to Late Permian and earliest Triassic (Lopingian to Induan, Zechstein, Bunter with the prognostic PT-
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boundary in a fossiliferous continental sabkha-playa transition), classical outcrops of the Saale basin in Saxony-Anhalt, continental fossiliferous gray and red beds of late Carboniferous (Gzhelian) to Late Permian Lopingian. Abstracts / Publications Abstracts of oral or poster presentation are welcome. Please indicate your preference when submitting. Abstracts, please, submit by e-mail (attached file in Word format) to: [email protected]. Deadline for submission is May, 10th, 2014. Official language of the meeting is English. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and published in an abstract volume. Format: Abstracts are limited to two A4‐sized pages including text, figures and tables; margins (top, bottom, left, right): 25 mm; title: upper and lower case, left justified; Arial, 14 pt bold; contributor’s names: upper and lower case, left justified, first name first, surname last, Arial, 12 pt.; affiliation: upper and lower case, left justified, Arial, 10 pt.; numbered superscripts should be used to indicate the affiliation of each contributor; e-mail address should be added in parentheses at the end of the corresponding contributor’s affiliation; main text: single‐spaced text, Arial 12 pt, no section headings. Additional to the abstract-volume, a meeting-volume including (peer-reviewed) extended abstracts and further short related contributions (10 to 20 print-pages; for more extended contributions contact O.E.) will be published in the psf-Journal of Freiberg University after the conference. Contributions to this meeting volume should be submitted electronically until August, 31st, 2014 to [email protected]. For instruction for authors consult the journal website at http://tu-freiberg.de/geo/psf. Important Dates Opening of e-mail registration: 01.03.2014 Abstract submission Deadline: 10.05.2014 Final registration deadline and payment of fees by bank transfer extended to: 10.05.2014 Hotel reservation in Freiberg for 20.–23.7.2014 up to: 30.05.2014 How to reach Freiberg? Freiberg is quite easy to access by public transport. The easiest way is to go to Dresden first (the nearby capital of Saxony State) and then to use railway to Freiberg (trains run every hour). Airports with international connections are closely situated in Dresden (DRS, 50 km away) and Leipzig (LEJ, 120 km away); both airports also have domestic flights from/to Frankfurt International Airport. Alternatively, you can also use one of the Berlin airports (Schönefeld: SXF, Tegel: FBB). From all mentioned airports regular railway connections to Freiberg are available (generally via Dresden). Airport connections:
Dresden airport: http://www.dresden-airport.de/ Leipzig airport: https://www.leipzig-halle-airport.de/en/ Frankfurt airport: http://www.frankfurt-airport.com/content/frankfurt_airport/en.html Berlin/Schönefeld and Berlin/Tegel airports: http://www.berlin-airport.de/en/
Railway connections: http://www.bahn.de/i/view/DEU/en/index.shtml Dresden railway main station (Dresden Hauptbahnhof) Dresden airport station (Dresden Flughafen) Leipzig railway main station (Leipzig Hauptbahnhof)
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Leipzig airport station (Leipzig/Halle Flughafen) Frankfurt railway main station (Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof) Frankfurt airport station (Frankfurt (M) Flughafen) Berlin railway main station (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) Berlin airport Schönefeld station (Berlin-Schönefeld Flughafen) Berlin airport Tegel station (Berlin Flughafen Tegel)
If you need any assistance, don’t hesitate to e-mail us. How to reach your hotel / the meeting locations in Freiberg? For your stay in Freiberg, we have the option for accommodation (pre-reservation) at Hotel Kreller (for details see above). The hotel is situated in the city center (http://www.hotel-kreller.de) and can be reached from the railway station either by taxi or by foot (about 1 km; map: http://www.hotel-kreller.de/kreller2/anfahrt.html). A map showing the meeting locations and other interesting spots is supplied on the meeting website. Further Communication Detailed schedule and organizational things will be distributed by e-mail to all the interested colleagues which have preregistered until April, 1st, 2014. The meeting website is located at: http://tu-freiberg.de/geo/palaeo/schneidj/cpc-2014
Typical Carboniferous and Permian fossils of the Saxo-Thuringian basins. a Seed fern Alethopteris subdavreuxi, West-phalian D, Oberhohndorf, Zwickau Basin, scale bar 2 cm (collection TU Bergakademie Freiberg ). b Cockroach zone species Sysciophlebia ilfeldensis, L. Rotliegend Netz-kater Formation, IIfeld Basin, scale bar 0.5 cm (collection F. Trostheide). c Palaeoniscid fish Elonichthys, L. Rotliegend Goldlauter Formation, Gottlob quarry, Thuringian Forest Basin, scale bar 1 cm (collection TU Bergakademie Freiberg). d Male cone of the conifer Walchia piniformis, L. Rotliegend Goldlauter Formation, Cabarz quarry, Thuringian Forest Basin, scale bar 1 cm (collection TU Bergakademie Freiberg). e Branchiosaur zone species amphibian Mela-nerpeton tenerum, Lower Rotliegend Börte-witz lake horizon, Oschatz Formation, NW Saxony Basin, scale bar 1 cm (collection Geological Survey of Saxony).f Ichniotherium sphaerodactylum, the track of a diadectid reptile, U. Rotliegend Tambach Formation, Bromacker quarry, Thuringian Forest Basin, scale bar 10 cm (Holotype, collection Natural Museum Gotha). g Group of the synapsid reptile Pantelosaurus saxonicus, Lower Rotliegend Niederhäslich Formation, Döhlen Basin, former Königin Carola coal mine, scale bar 20 cm (collection Geological Survey of Saxony).
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Time schedule of oral presentations:
Monday, 21.07.2014 Tuesday, 22.07.2014
time Chair: O. Elicki time Chair: Jun Wang
8.30 Schneider, J.W. & Elicki, O. Opening ceremony and welcome addresses.
9.00‐9.20 Shen, S. / The Permian timescale: progress, perspective and plans ‐ presented by Wang Y.
9.00‐9.20 Bachmann, G.H. & Szurlies, M. / Palaeogeography and facies of the continental Permian‐Triassic Boundary interval, Central Germany
9.20‐9.40 Richards, B. / Nonmarine‐marine correlations and the international Carboniferous time scale
9.20‐9.40 Scholze, F. et al. / Nonmarine–marine correlation of the Permian‐Triassic boundary: first results from a new multistratigraphic research project
9.40‐10.00 Schneider, J.W. et al. / Carboniferous‐Permian Nonmarine–Marine Correlation Working Group – new results and future tasks
9.40‐10.00 Ronchi, A. et al. / Facies analysis and evolution of the Permian and Triassic volcano‐sedimentary succession in the Eastern Pyrenees (Spain) and its regional correlation in the western Peri‐Tethys
10.00‐10.20
Wagner, R.H. & Knight, J.A. / The “global” scheme of Pennsylvanian chronostratigraphic units vs West European and North American regional units
10.00‐10.20
Wang, W. et al. / Atmosphere carbon dioxide concentration and its isotope, a possible stratigraphic correlation bridge between marine and no‐marine carbonate
10.20‐11.00
coffee break Chair: Xiangdong Wang
10.20‐11.00
coffee break Chair: B. Richards
11.00‐11.20
Menning, M. / The Middle Permian Illawarra Reversal used for global correlations
11.00‐11.20
Lambert, L.L. et al. / Environment, climate, and time in the Upper Carboniferous: a Mid‐Moscovian paleotropical case study to link the marine and terrestrial records
11.20‐11.40
Opluštil, S. & Schmitz, M. / New high‐precision U‐Pb CA‐TIMS zircon ages from the Late Paleozoic continental basins of the Czech Republic
11.20‐11.40
Wang, J. / Floral changeover through Late Paleozoic Ice‐age in North China Block: a case study in Weibei Coalfield
11.40‐12.00
Tichomirowa, M. / The high‐precision U‐Pb zircon dating method: first results from the Freiberg laboratory
11.40‐12.00
Gebhardt, U. & Hiete, M. / Orbital forcing in continental Upper Carboniferous red beds of the intermontane Saale Basin, Germany
12.00‐12.20
Golubev, V.K. et al. / The Permian sequence of East European Platform as a global standard of the continental Middle‐Upper Permian
12.00‐12.20
Knight, J.A. & Wagner, R.H. / Proposal for the recognition of a Saberian Substage in the mid‐Stephanian (West European chronostratigraphic scheme)
12.20‐14.00
lunch break Chair: S. Voigt
12.20‐14.00
lunch break Chair: A. Götz
14.00‐14.20
Voigt, S. & Marchetti, L. / Pennsylvanian‐Permian captorhinomorph footprints: A tool for global biostratigraphic correlation?
14.00‐14.20
Fischer, J. et al. / Oxygen and strontium isotope analyses on shark teeth from Early Permian (Sakmarian–Kungurian) bone beds of the southern USA
14.20‐14.40
Marchetti, L. & Voigt, S. / Taxonomy and biostratigraphic significance of Early Permian captorhinomorph footprints
14.20‐14.40
Silantiev, V.V. / Permian non‐marine bivalve genus Palaeomutela Amalitzky, 1891 and its evolutionary lineages based on the hinge structure
14.40‐15.00
Mujal, E. et al. / Dating of Permian Pyrenean terrestrial record (NE Iberian Peninsula). Interbasinal tetrapod ichnology correlation
14.40‐15.00
Urazaeva, M.N. & Silantiev, V.V. / Early Permian non‐marine bivalves of Southern Primorye: usage of the shell’ external features in taxonomy on generic level
15.00‐15.20
Molostovskaya, I. & Golubev, V. / Methodic approach and ways of correlating remote non‐marine Permian formations from ostracods
15.00‐15.20
Feng, Z. et al. / A specialized feeding habit of oribatid mites from the early Permian Manebach Formation in the Thuringian Forest Basin, Germany
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15.20‐16.00
coffee break Chair: J.W. Schneider
15.20‐16.00
coffee break Chair: O. Elicki
16.00‐16.20
Götz, A.E. / Sub‐Saharan nonmarine‐marine cross‐basin correlations based on climate signatures recorded in Permian palynomorph assemblages
16.00 Greeting speeches and addresses (serious & not so serious) in honour of Jörg W. Schneider concerning his „retirement“ from its academic job as the full Professor of Palaeontology at Freiberg University. 16.20‐
16.40
Srivastava, A.K. / Problems and prospects of correlating stratigraphic units of Permian (Lower) Gondwana
16.40‐17.00
Iannuzzi, R. et al. / The Campáleo Lontras Shale outcrop: a potential stratotype for Carboniferous‐Permian transition in the Paraná Basin
17.00‐17.20
Mutwakil, N. et al. / Significance of newly discovered of Late Carboniferous and Permo‐Triassic strata, North and Northwestern Sudan
18.30 business meeting Subcommissions on Carboniferous and on Permian Stratigrapy, and Sino‐German‐Working‐Group at Hotel Kreller
18.00 BBQ and celebration at Geological Institute
Posters will be presented during the entire scientific session on both days. The participants are recommended to use coffee and lunch breaks and the time before and after talk-blocks for related study and discussion.
All abstracts (talks and posters) will be included within the book of abstracts.
For the location of the hotels as well as for the scientific meeting in the Otto-Meisser-Building (Institute of Geophysics and Geoinformatics), Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 12 (ground floor, room No. MEI-0080), see the map below and at http://tu-freiberg.de/geo/palaeo/schneidj/cpc-2014.
“Hotel am Obermarkt” is situated at the corner Waisenhaus-Str./Nonnengasse. “Hotel Kreller” is situated in the Fischerstraße. The distance from the hotels in the city centre to the lecture hall is only 15 minutes walk.
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Time schedule for the excursions
Day Region / Topic Excursion Program Accommodation Guides Remarks
Wednesday 23.07.2014
Central and Western Bohemian basins Czech Republic
Typical continental Pennsylvanian successions
of Europe
8.00 start in Freiberg to Central and Western Bohemian basins 8.00 – 10.00 Bus transfer from Freiberg, Germany to Kryry near Podbořany, Czech Republic 10.00 – 11.30 Kryry – brick pit: Líně Fm., Stephanian C (late
Gzhelian), alluvial plain red beds with palaeosols; 1.20 h transfer to Horní Bříza (or Kaznějov) 12.50 – 13.50 Kaznějov (or Horní Bříza) – large kaolin opencast
mines. Base of the Týnec Fm. and/or top of the Nýřany Member (Kladno Fm.), early Stephanian (Kasimovian), fluvial succession with silicified tree trunks, alluvial plain mudstones with paleosols; 60 mins transfer to Lubná (or Pecínov) near Rakovník 14.50 – 15.30 Lubná (or Pecínov) - kaolinitic refractory
claystone opencast mines: Radnice Member (Kladno Fm.), Bolsovian (middle Moscovian), fluvial cycles with paleosols, tuff beds, palynology, palaeontology, coal petrology; 50 mins transfer to Klobuky north of the town of Slaný 16.20 – 16.40 Klobuky – small road cut: Klobuky Horizon (Líně
Formation), Stephanian C (late Gzhelian), lacustrine to palustrine sediments, palaeontology (plants, vertebrate and invertebrate fauna); 40 mins. transfer to Kralupy nad Vltavou – Lobeč (this locality will be included only if time permits!)
17.20 – 18.00 Kralupy nad Vltavou – Lobeč – outcrop along
the river Moldau: Nýřany Member, late Westphalian/early Stephanian (latest Moscovian/early Kasimovian), fluvial cycles with mudstone intercalations, paleontology, paleoecology; 2.15 h transfer to the town of Vrchlabi located in SW corner
of the Krkonoše-Piedmont Basin; 20.15 – accommodation and dinner in a local hotel in Vrchlabí
Hotel Gendorf in Vrchlabí
Stanislav Opluštil, Richard Lojka, Jaroslav Zajíc, Karel Martínek
Thursday 24.07.2014
Krkonoše-Piedmont Basin,
Bohemian Massif Czech Republic
Carboniferous-Permian transition in continental
deposits
8.00 start in Vrchlabi to the Krkonoše-Piedmont Basin 8.30 – 9.30 Vrchlabí road-cut, very long exposure of Rudník
member, Vrchlabí Fm., Early Permian - Asselian, lacustrine black shales and carbonates, geochemistry; paleontology; 30 mins transfer 10.00 – 10.30 Košťálov – Kovářův mlýn, large outcrop of
Rudník member, Vrchlabí Fm., Early Permian - Asselian, lacustrine black shales; paleontology; 15 mins transfer 10.45 – 11.40 Ploužnice railway-cut, Ploužnice member,
Semily Fm., Stephanian C (late Gzhelian), lacustrine facies, paleosols, palaeontology; 20 mins transfer 12.00 – 13.00 Stará Paka railway station, long outcrop of the
Karel Martínek,
Zbyněk Šimůnek, Jaroslav Zajíc, Richard Lojka,
Stanislav Opluštil, Stanislav Štamberg
Vrchlabí Fm., early Permian - Asselian, fluvial facies and architectures, provenance, ichnology; 13.20 – 14.30 The Municipal Museum Nová Paka (Treasury of
Gemstones) – exhibition from the Late Pennsylvanian to Cisuralian deposits, volcanites and paleontology of the Krkonoše-Piedmont Basin; summary to the KP Basin; 14,40 – 15.00 optional stop (if there is enough time) Nová Paka – Zlámaniny, Asturian – Barruelian fluvial deposits, volcanic
dyke 15.00 start back to Freiberg, Germany, via Prague; 4 h transfer to Freiberg (without airport stops)
arrival at hotel Kreller in Freiberg at 19.00
Friday 25.07.2014
Saxony and Thuringia Germany
Continental Carboniferous-Permian
basins
Late Permian marine transgression
Permian/Triassic boundary profile
8.00 start to the Chemnitz basin, Early Permian 9.00 – 9.40 Chemnitz - caldera of the Zeisigwald tuff eruption
(Asselian/Artinskian); 10.00 – 12.00 Chemnitz Petrified Forest (Asselian/Artinskian) -
scientific excavation, Museum Petrified Forest; 1 h transfer 13.00 – 13.40 Gera - basal conglomerate of Late Permian
Wuchiapingian Zechstein transgression, Copper slate, marine limestones; 30 mins transfer 14.10 – 15.00 Caaschwitz quarry - best exposed continuous
Late Permian marine Zechstein – continental Early Triassic Buntsandstein section in Europe, problem of the PTB in the European continental profiles; 2 h transfer trough the Thuringian basin (Triassic) 17.00 – 17.50 Manebach - Variscian basement (intra-
Carboniferous weathered granite); Manebach Fm., Early Asselian - classical type locality of Euramerian Permian plants ( e.g., SCHLOTHEIM), alluvial plain with swamps; 40 mins transfer across Thuringian Forest Mountain 18.30 Schleusingen - Museum of Natural History,
Bertholdsburg Castle - exhibition of Carboniferous to Triassic fossils, reconstructions of the respective environments (ancient forests, lakes, seas etc.); Barbecue in the castle courtyard.
Arcadia hotel in Suhl
J.W. Schneider Ronny Rößler Frank Scholze
Ralf Werneburg
Saturday 26.07.2014
Thuringia Germany
Carboniferous–Permian Thuringian Forest basin
8.00 start to the Thuringian Forest basin 8.30 – 9.10 Oberhof - Lochbrunnen excavation site, typical
Asselian/Sakmarian lake deposits, level of last perennial lakes in Central Europe flora, fauna; 40 mins transfer 9.50 – 10.40 Friedrichroda - Gottlob quarry: late Asselian lake
profile with pyroclastic horizon and fan deposits, flora, fauna; 20 min transfer 11.00 – 12.30 Cabarz quarry - middle Asselian alluvial plain to
lacustrine deposits, red and grey facies, meso- to xerophile flora, invertebrates, amphibians, fishes, tetrapod tracks, etc. 30 min transfer
J.W. Schneider Ralf Werneburg Sebastian Voigt Stefan Brauner Ronny Rößler Frank Scholze
13.00 – 14.00 Tambach - Artinskian red beds, profile from
palaeo-wadi mouth fan to flood basin deposits, best European locality of Permian tetrapod skeletons and tracks; invertebrates and their traces, flora 1 h transfer 15.00 – 16.30 Wartburg castle in Eisenach town (best
preserved German Romanic castle, UNESCO World Heritage) - late Early to Middle Permian alluvial fan and playa deposits; 1.50 h transfer to Bad Frankenhausen
Residenz hotel in Bad Frankenhausen
Sunday 27.07.2014
Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt
Germany
Carboniferous Saale basins
Middle to Late Permian
Southern Permian basin
8.00 start to the Saale and Southern Permian basins 8.30 – 9.40 Kyffhäuser Mountain with ruins of a castle from
medieval times – Late Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) red bed fan deposits with petrified tree trunks; 40 mins transfer 10.20 – 11.00 Rothenschirmbach – late Middle Permian
(Wordian/Capitanian) playa deposits, vertebrate and invertebrate tracks, conchostracans; 40 mins transfer 11.40 – 12.30 Hettstedt, Valley of the Heilige Reiser, type
locality of the Saalian phase, discordance between late Pennsylvanian wet red beds and late Permian dry red beds; 1.30 h transfer 14.00 – 15.30 Bebertal, Middle Permian wadi and playa deposits
with dune sandstones at the border of the Southern Permian basin 1.30 h transfer 17.00 Leipzig airport (if requested) 1.30 h transfer 18.30 Dresden airport (if requested) 1.00 h transfer 19.30 arrival in Freiberg (without airport stops at 18.30)
hotel Kreller in Freiberg
J.W. Schneider Ronny Rößler Frank Scholze
Ralf Werneburg (overnight to Monday - if needed - not included in the excursion fee)
Flight connections - after 17.00 from Leipzig airport - after 18.30 from Dresden airport