Knowledge and Geological techniques Comments understanding and skills Early Mesozoic. and plant remains. Coal Separation of seams and seat-earths Laurasia and with rootlets. Gondwana by the continental red beds and Tethys ocean in evaporites. Permo- southern Europe. Triassic – Rifting and semi-arid and desert subsidence in the terrestrial; hypersaline North Sea area marine deposits; related to the opening Jurassic shallow marine of the Atlantic Ocean. shelf deposits. Late Mesozoic. open marine Cretaceous During the chalk deposits recording Cretaceous, a period of high global continued opening of temperatures and sea the Atlantic and levels. continued subsidence shallow and non-marine of the North Sea Paleogene deposits area. recording transgressive- Cenozoic. Formation regressive cycles. of the Alps with related tectonic uplift in the British area. Ongoing subsidence in North Sea area.
Knowledge and understanding Geological techniques and skills Comments Early Mesozoic. Separation of Laurasia and Gondwana by the Tethys ocean in southern Europe. Rifting and subsidence in the North Sea area related to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. Late Mesozoic. During the Cretaceous, continued opening of the Atlantic and continued subsidence of the North Sea area. Cenozoic. Formation of the Alps with related tectonic uplift in the British area. Ongoing subsidence in North Sea area. and plant remains. Coal seams and seat-earths with rootlets. continental red beds and evaporites. Permo- Triassic – semi-arid and desert terrestrial; hypersaline marine deposits; Jurassic shallow marine shelf deposits. open marine Cretaceous chalk deposits recording a period of high global temperatures and sea levels. shallow and non-marine Paleogene deposits recording transgressive- regressive cycles.
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