Russia–UK Collaboration in Paleontology: Past, Present, and Future

Benton, Michael J.; Briggs, Derek E. G.; Clack, Jennifer A.; Edwards, Dianne; Galway‐Witham, Julia; Stringer, Chris; Turvey, Samuel T.

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“…Due to its significant territory and outstanding geological diversity, Russia boasts a particularly rich geoheritage [29], which often has major international importance. For instance, this is the case of the Volga River watershed, where the Permian System was established more than 150 years ago [30][31][32]. Those developments laid the foundations for subsequent development of the regional standard of this system's subdivision into series and stages [33][34][35].…”

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Earth Science Frontier at Urban Periphery: Geoheritage from the Vicinity of Kazan City, Russia

2023

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Characterizing geological heritage sites (geosites) available in Russia remains an urgent task. The present study focuses on two geosites from the vicinity of Kazan—a large city on the Volga River. They are attributed to the standardized geoheritage types and scored by means of several criteria. It is found out that the Pechischi geosite represents nine geoheritage types, from which the stratigraphical type (stratotype section of the Upper Kazanian regional unit of the Guadalupian) and the geohistorical type (history of the Permian System studies) are the most important. This geosite reaches 675 out of 750 maximum possible scores, and it is ranked globally. The Cheremushki geosite represents six geoheritage types, from which the stratigraphical type (reference section of the Urzhumian regional unit of the Guadalupian) and the paleontological type (locality of diverse fossils, including tetrapods) are the most important. This geosite reaches a score of 250 and is ranked nationally. The undertaken study allows for recommending several actions for the effective conservation and exploitation of these geosites. The innovative interpretation is that the presence of geosites at the urban periphery makes its general (not only geological) heritage value comparable to that of the city’s center.

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Earth Science Frontier at Urban Periphery: Geoheritage from the Vicinity of Kazan City, Russia

2023

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New insights into Silurian–Devonian palaeophytogeography

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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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The naming of the Permian System

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2021

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The naming of the Permian by Roderick Murchison in 1841 is well known. This is partly because he ‘completed’ the stratigraphic column at system level, but also because of the exotic aspects of his extended fieldwork in remote parts of Russia and Murchison's reputed character. Here, we explore several debated and controversial aspects of this act, benefiting from access to documents and reports notably from Russian sources. Murchison or Sedgwick could have provided a name for the unnamed lower New Red Sandstone in 1835 based on British successions or those in Germany, so perhaps the Imperial aim of naming time from British geology was not the urgent task some have assumed. Murchison has been painted as arrogant and Imperialistic, which was doubtless true, but at the time many saw him as a great leader, even an attractive individual. Others suggest he succeeded because he stood on the shoulders of local geologists; however, his abilities at brilliant and rapid geological synthesis are undoubted. Two unexpected consequences of his work are that this arch conservative is revered in Russia as a hero of geological endeavours, and, for all his bombast, his ‘Permian’ was not widely accepted until 100 years after its naming.Supplementary material:https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5412079

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Russia–UK Collaboration in Paleontology: Past, Present, and Future

Cited by 4 publications

References 134 publications

Earth Science Frontier at Urban Periphery: Geoheritage from the Vicinity of Kazan City, Russia

Earth Science Frontier at Urban Periphery: Geoheritage from the Vicinity of Kazan City, Russia

New insights into Silurian–Devonian palaeophytogeography

The naming of the Permian System

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