Category:Fur Formation
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The Fur Formation is a unit of diatomitic sediment approximately 60 meters thick consisting of diatoms and clay minerals with up to 180 layers of volcanic ash.[2] In Danish literature the formation has informally been referred to as the moler (Ler means clay). The diatomite comprises 2/3 opal tests of diatoms and 1/3 clay, interbedded with layers of volcanic ash and a few limestone horizons (‘cementstones’), and has exceptionally complete fossil preservation.
It is known for its abundant fossil fish, insects, reptiles, birds and plants. The Fur Formation was deposited just above the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary, about 55 million years ago, and its tropical or sub-tropical flora indicate that the climate after the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum was moderately warm (approximately 4-8 degrees warmer than today).
Glacial activity has moved and folded all exposed moler in a complicated pattern which permits very precise mapping of glacial movement at the end of the last ice age, and has, due to the ash layers, created an extraordinary pedagogical case for studying tectonics.Subcategories
This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
E
- Ejerslev Molergrav (20 F)
- Ejerslev Sø (35 F)
F
- Feggeklit (62 F)
- Forficula paleocaenica (1 F)
H
K
- Knudeklint (2 F)
M
- MoClay (30 F)
- Molerklinter ved Ejerslev (9 F)
S
- Septencoracias (5 F)
Media in category "Fur Formation"
The following 45 files are in this category, out of 45 total.
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Antigonia.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 2.2 MB
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Bird skeleton December 019.jpg 3,456 × 5,184; 10.21 MB
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Bird-head.jpg 5,184 × 3,456; 7.66 MB
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Charadriiformes-fossil.JPG 1,413 × 1,060; 514 KB
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Cimbrophlebia bittaciformis Fur Formation.jpg 250 × 193; 10 KB
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DK49 Reje.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 2.19 MB
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DK502.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 9.18 MB
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Eocene fish from the Fur Formation.jpg 4,128 × 3,096; 4.86 MB
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Forficula paleocaenica Fur Formation.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 4.46 MB
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Fossil bird head.jpg 2,224 × 1,632; 3.32 MB
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Fossil crab.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 5.59 MB
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Fossil Hemiptera.JPG 5,184 × 3,456; 14.43 MB
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Fossil Leaf.JPG 5,184 × 3,456; 13.6 MB
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Fossil of a bird head.jpg 5,184 × 3,456; 7.61 MB
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Fossile cone.JPG 3,072 × 2,304; 1.4 MB
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FUM-3-diptera.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 2.65 MB
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FUM-4-diptera.JPG 4,283 × 2,855; 9.05 MB
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FUM-5-Neuroptera.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 3.24 MB
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FUM-6-diptera.JPG 2,454 × 1,636; 3.72 MB
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Fur Formation.jpg 845 × 634; 488 KB
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Fur geological layers.jpg 801 × 801; 237 KB
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Fur island diatomaceous earth.JPG 3,872 × 2,592; 2.94 MB
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Fur layers 2.jpg 2,560 × 1,920; 976 KB
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Fur museum udstilingen.jpg 4,608 × 3,072; 3.4 MB
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Havaborre.jpg 2,816 × 2,112; 4.73 MB
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Klify na wyspie Fur.jpg 1,280 × 960; 247 KB
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Knudeklinten.JPG 2,112 × 2,816; 2.22 MB
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Lacewing - Palaeopsychops latifasciatus.jpg 4,686 × 3,124; 12.36 MB
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Leaf from ash.jpg 3,688 × 2,040; 4.47 MB
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Mene sp. from the Early Eocene Denmark.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 2.81 MB
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Moclay closeup Fur formation 2013-08-25.jpg 5,238 × 3,492; 14.42 MB
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Moclay open mine 2010-08-06.jpg 7,313 × 2,448; 9.57 MB
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Moclay quarry Bette Jens Hyw Fur 2013-08-25 1.JPG 5,127 × 2,241; 4.38 MB
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Moclay quarry Bette Jens Hyw Fur 2013-08-25 2.jpg 5,254 × 2,332; 4.13 MB
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Moclay quarry near Bette Jens Hyw Fur 2013-08-25.jpg 5,296 × 2,444; 3.97 MB
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Musseel.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 2.53 MB
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Palaeocentrotus boeggildi.jpg 5,184 × 3,456; 13.7 MB
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Pan-Cheloniidae from the Fur Formation.webp 1,499 × 1,113; 314 KB
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Parasitic-wasp.JPG 3,674 × 2,449; 7.36 MB
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Polymixiid.JPG 1,897 × 1,586; 1.18 MB
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Septencoracias map.jpg 1,386 × 1,489; 1.57 MB
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Snake-Fur Museum2162.JPG 4,752 × 3,168; 11.71 MB
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Tasbacka danica.JPG 1,615 × 1,209; 775 KB
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Ypresiomyrma rebekkae holotype.jpg 685 × 703; 124 KB
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Ypresiomyrma rebekkae.jpg 1,932 × 1,858; 2.88 MB
