Immediately following the opening conference of IGCP n° 503, the
first field meeting of the new IGCP project was held from September 4
to 12. Blessed by glorious weather, we visited the Lower Palaeozoic of
southern Sweden (palaeocontinent Baltica), including the GSSP of the
base of the Upper Ordovician at Fågelsång, the Ordovician
of the Island of Öland, and the Silurian succession of the Island
of Gotland. The field trip was led by Per Ahlberg
(Fågelsång), Lennart Jeppsson and Axel Munnecke (Gotland),
together with Svend Stouge (Öland).
 departure in Erlangen; Qiu Jinyu, Beatrice & Kjeld & Sinje Munnecke, Xie Xiaoyan, and Meirong Sun |
 the Chinese Group in front of the ferry in Puttgarden . |
 "...the size is not important..." . |
 Qiu Jinyu and Chen Xu relaxing on the ferry . |
 Sergey Rozhnov . |
 Thijs Vandenbroucke, Li Jun, and Jan Vanmeirhaeghe . |
 arrival in Lund, Sweden . |
 arrival in Lund, Sweden . |
 the participants of the field trip (from left): Thijs Vandenbroucke, Li Jun, Oliver Lehnert, Myriam Lefebvre, Su Wenbo, Bertrand Lefebvre, Olle Hints, Seung-bae Lee, Jan Vanmeirhaeghe, Xu Honggen, Jusun Woo, Fan Juanxuan, Axel Munnecke, Stepan Manda, Chen Xu, Qiu Jinyu, Per Ahlberg (guide in the Fågelsång area), Meirong Sun, Rong Jiayu, Thomas Servais, and Sergey Rozhnov |
 Per Ahlberg is giving the introduction . |
 on the way to the "golden spike" . |
 Per Ahlberg at the GSSP (base of Upper Ordovician) . |
 Li Jun pointing to the "golden spike" . |
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 sceptic view... . |
 Chen Xu telling the history of the GSSP at Fågelsång . |
 photo session . |
 sampling . |
 ...we have been here... . |
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 Chen Xu on the balcony at the accommodation in Köpingsvik . |
 Bertrand and Myriam Lefebvre . |
 Köpingsklint Section . |
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 Svend Stouge (guide on Öland) . |
 Svend Stouge and Chen Xu . |
 Chen Xu, Axel Munnecke, and Qiu Jinyu in front of an iron age grave |
 Seung-bae Lee, Su Wenbo, Axel Munnecke, and Jusun Woo . |
 the section in Älekinta . |
 detail of the section . |
 Äleklinta . |
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 North of Horns Udde . |
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 Bruddesta Fm, north of Horns Udde . |
 the "bloody layer" . |
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 Su Wenbo |
 Byrum Section . |
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 Byrum Section . |
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 the section in Haget . |
 Svend Stouge and Dave Harper . |
 Svend Stouge . |
 Thomas Servais, Axel Munnecke, Oliver Lehnert, and Dave Harper |
 the group in Haget . |
 big cephalopod . |
 the section in Hälludden . |
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 Gillberga Quarry . |
 Olle Hints . |
 Degerhamn harbour . |
 'Sphaeronites' . |
 blasting in the Degerhamn Quarry . |
 Chen Xu, Rong Jiayu, and Svend Stouge in the Degerhamn Quarry |
 visit of the Degerhamn cement factory . |
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 the Degerhamn Quarry Road Section . |
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 the way to the Ottenby Section . |
 Ottenby Section . |
 Ottenby Section . |
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Part 3:
Gotland
 the Gotland ferry . |
 Axel Munnecke (guide on Gotland) and Rong Jiayu . |
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 the Geological Field Station (Lund University) on Gotland . |
 cliff section in Ygne (in the background the Högklint reef) . |
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 the boundary between Lower and Upper Visby Formation in Ygne |
 Oliver Lehnert and Lennart Jeppsson (guide on Gotland) . |
 the Högklint reef . |
 view from Högklint towards Visby . |
 the boundary between Högklint and Tofta Formation in the abandoned quarry at Galgberget |
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 cliff section in Ireviken . |
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 'Halysites biostrome' with abundant rugose corals . |
 collecting brachiopods... . |
 Axel Munnecke at the boundary between Lower and Upper Visby Formation |
 Axel Munnecke . |
 Su Wenbo, Xu Honggen, and Axel Munnecke |
 Lennart Jeppsson . |
 Luch time in Ireviken . |
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 Li Jun dubbed to knight . |
 "Have you seen it?" . |
 Lennart Jeppsson, Jan Vanmeirhaeghe, and Bertrand Lefebvre |
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 Gannarveskär . |
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 ripple marks in the Gannarve Member, Gannarveskär . |
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 Jan Vanmeirhaeghe and Thijs Vandenbroucke . |
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 whoever else? . |
 Comment from Thijs: "Find the nine differences!" |
 the group . |
 Bara . |
 detail of the oolite . |
 view from Blåhäll to the Karls Island . |
 the section in Blåhäll . |
 lunch break in Blåhäll . |
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 Blåhäll . |
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 Myriam Lefebvre . |
 dinner in Visby . |
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 the boundary between Halla Formation and Klinteberg Formation in Gothemshammar |
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 Kuppen . |
 lower surface of a huge block from the stromatoporoid biostrome in Kuppen |
 Li Jun and Thomas Servais . |
 Chen Xu and Axel Munnecke . |
 stromatoporoid biostrome . |
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 fossil sea stack (Kuppen) . |
 Silurian beach boulders next to recent ones . |
 going back to the busses . |
 the Hemse-Eke boundary in Bodudd . |
 what is so very special about this outcrop?... . |
 bedding plane extremely rich in oncolites in Bodudd . |
 detail . |
 Husryggen . |
 boundary between Burgsvik Sandstone and oolite in Husryggen |
 semi-circle reef ('faro') in Holmhällar . |
 discussing the origin of this special reef type . |
 thick crinoids, mostly in life position in Holmhällar . |
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 Hemse-Eke boundary in Botvide (the last outcrop of the field trip) |
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 a present for the guide... . |
 the ferry back home... . |
 photographs kindly allocated by Olle Hints, Li Jun, Bertrand Lefebvre, Axel Munnecke, Rong Jiayu, and Chen Xu |
