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Fossiles et Minéraux de la
carrière d'Ottange-Rumelange
Front cover of the monograph
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Back cover of the book
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"Let's dream a bit, life is so short!
170 million years ago, an Ichthyosaurian, a
big marine reptile, lived in the waters of a shallow sea edged by a
luxuriant and varied vegetation. It ate fish but didn't despise also
the giant Belemnites floating within the ocean currents. Sadly, for it
as for the entire fauna living at that time, life was short and the
remains of only a few of them did outlast as fossils in some kind of
limestone.
Today, there is a quarry on the border
between France and Luxembourg, at the villages of Ottange-Rumelange,
where there has been an ocean at Jurassic times in our region.
Enthusiastic amateurs of earth sciences of
two associations decided to revive this period and raised an inventory,
not exhaustive, of the paleontological and mineral riches of this
quarry.
It is this inventory you will discover
browsing this book of 152 pages. More than 160 geological samples are
being depicted in clear photographs. An article with general
explanations does precede each chapter.
Dear reader, it's up to you now to start
dreaming...."
This monograph is the result of a
cooperation between Géolor, AGMP (the friends of geology,
mineralogy and paleontology of Luxembourg) and the national museum of
natural history of Luxembourg, and with the schientific assistance of
the university Henri Poicaré of Nancy.
Two excerpts of the book (click on the pictures to show
them enlarged in a new window):
This
book is written in French language. You can order it from
Géolor, please write to info@geolor.fr.
It
costs 20 Euros plus postage.
The
Summary:
Préface (les
présidents de Géolor et de l'AGMP)
Avant-propos
(le
ministre et la secrétaire de la culture et de la recherche de
Luxembourg)
Le point de vue
de l'universitaire (B. Lathuilière)
Le point de vue
de l'amateur (J.-B. Lajournade pour le groupe de travail)
Introduction
géologique à la carrière d'Ottange-Rumelange (B.
Lathuilière)
Aspects
techniques de la carrière (d'après le texte de R.
Dernières)
Spongiaires
(J.-L.Temporelli)
Coraux (B.
Lathuilière)
Vers marins (R.
Weis)
Bivalves (R.
Haas, R. Weis)
Gastropodes (K.
Meiers)
Céphalopodes
(N. Gross)
-Nautiles (N. Gross)
-Ammonites (N. Gross, R. Weis)
-Bélemnites (R. Weis, N. Gross)
Arthropodes:
crustacés (D. Delsate)
Bryozoaires
(J.-P. Fayard)
Brachiopodes (R.
Weis, J.-P. Fayard)
Échinodermes
(B. Thuy)
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Échinides
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Ophiurides
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Astérides
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Crinoïdes
Vertébrés
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Poissons (D. Delsate, R. Felten)
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Reptiles marins (D. Delsate)
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L'Ichthyosaure d'Ottange-Rumelange (E. Soirfeck)
Ichnofossiles
(B. Lathuilière)
Protozoaires (D.
Delsate, B. Lathuilière)
Végétaux
(R. Weis)
Palynologie (V.
Huault)
Minéralogie
(S. Philippo)
Références
Index
