[8] The data provided by fossilized wood rings showed that the location of Korsaröd hosted a middle-latitude Mediterranean-type biome in the late Early Jurassic, with low rainfall ratio, delayed to seasonal events.
The southern branch of the lineament forms the Tornquist–Teisseyre Zone (TTZ), which separates the Precambrian lithosphere of the East European Craton from accreted Early Paleozoic peri-Gondwanan terranes of central Europe.
[28] Dominating the Djupadal formation is moderately sorted lapilli tuff with abundant scoria, what indicates moderate explosivity, giving the eruption products short transport paths, preventing extensive mechanical weathering, that would create rounded fragments and large amounts of ash, that along thick layers and decimetre sized basaltic bombs are clear signs of closeness to the volcanic source.
[27] A more recent work has covered the only know Borehole that includes strata of the Central Skane Volcanic Province, the KBH2 (with a previous failed attempt, KBH1) at Djupadalsmölla, yielding more data about the stratotype location of the formation.
[29] At this Borehole the Crystalline Basement is composed of invariably weathered red-whitish Gneiss, having a thickness of 6.32 m, with the lower part dominated by mafic minerals with coarse-grained quartz and feldspar.
[30] The properly volcanic strata have a thickness of 19.50 m, being marked by the appearance of lapilli tuff cemented by calcite or zeolite, with abundant xenoliths and accidental lithics of felsic type and a size of 10–20 cm.
[31] It is followed by subunit 2 of 48 to 150 cm, dominated by lapilli tuff whose initial point collects better preserved volcaniclastic grains and with a clear white cement filling the intergranular porosity and vesicles.
Also hosts lapillas from hazelnut to pea size are rounded, provided with a dense dark solidification zone and prove thereby as subaeric ejection products and not an origin from intrusive formations on cavities or open crevices.
[4] The samples taken at the NNE of Djudapal shows angular, gravel-sized material contains less altered granules of gneiss, remnant Feldspar and Quartz on a fraction dominated by Smectite, unlike the previous kaolinite-dominated ones, although this last one is also abundant.
[4] The Korsaröd Lagerstatten is located also on central Scania, and represents the best outcrop of the formation, leading to exquisitely preserved (with fossilized nuclei and chromosomes) specimens of ferns of the extant genus Osmundastrum.
[42] Its clasts are angular and poorly sorted, recovered on a series of layers whose timing is uncertain, as there is no probe if represent discrete episodes separated by intervals of non-deposition or is result of variations due to a high-energy depositional setting.
[58] Beyond the Basanites, the overall lithology includes Iddingsite, Augite, Serpentinite, Magnetite, Orthoclase, Plagioclase, Olivine, Chlorite, Apatite, Titanite, Feldspar and indeterminate Glass-like particles.
The cement, which fills the space between the sideromelan grains and seals them together, consists for the most part of limestone, which is easily recognized under the microscope and is also clearly visible when the preparations are treated with acid.
[78] A recent sample of the KBH2 at Djupadalsmölla has found again solid evidence of a Latest Pliensbachian age, namely by the occurrence of scarce Callialasporites turbatus, the presence of the marine palynomorphs Mancodinium semitabulatum and Nannoceratopsis gracilis and the total absence of the genera Parvocysta and Phallocysta.
[81] The volcanic material was translated to the Continental margin by large fluvial channels, that ended on the sea deposits of the Green Series of Grimmen and Dobbertin, with the three-dimensional clay of this unit probably originated as the weathering product of this.
This is seen as, after the increased amount of clays with abundant volcanic materials, sands were repeatedly poured into the North German Basin from Skåne, as result of the erosion of the Höör sandstone.
[27] It has been suggested to be deposited on a fluvial setting that was influenced by a debris flow, mixing plants and sediments on a downhill transport, probably from the nearby Äskekull Volcano, one and a half kilometers south.
[10] It has been suggested this sandstone underlies the volcanic sedimentary rock, yet it has abundant Silicon dioxide from the pyroclastics, implicating the transport of large amount of this last one early after deposition, precluding major sediment compaction.
[90] The Dagstorp sandstone is filled with green stone fragments, considered basalt and Diabase, coming either from the vicinity of their current occurrence or further from the east, proving that tuff formations in connection with the basal eruptions originally had a not inconsiderable spread.
After the volcanic deposition, an early lithification is observed, with the presence of Ba-rich zeolites, evidence of a later marine invasion that affected diagenesis, possibly the transgression collected in the Brandsberga erratics.
[100] The data provided by the fossilized wood rings showed that the location of Korsaröd hosted a middle-latitude Mediterranean-type biome in the late Early Jurassic, with low rainfall.
is also related with a sporadic intraseasonal and multi-year episodes of growth disruption, probably due to the volcanic action, with rapid permineralization of woody remains, suggesting that the vegetation grew in a hydrothermal region, with major challenges for roots to cope with warm, mineral-laden fluids percolating through the soil.
[101] Pollen, spores, wood and charcoal locally indicate a complex forest community subject to episodic fires and other forms of disturbance in an active volcanic landscape under a moderately seasonal climate.
From the petiole and the root of Osmundastrum puchellum where recovered thread-like structures, identified as derived from a pathogenic or saprotrophic fungus invading necrotic tissues of the host plant.
External exotic roots are preserved within detritus-filled cavities between the petiole bases of Osmundastrum pulchellum, with wall thickenings similar to the vasculature evident in ancient and modern herbaceous lycopsids.
Reworked from primitive ferns found in Devonian and Carboniferous rocks of Europe Apiculatasporites[118] A. varians Hygrophilous Very scarce A Miospore, affinities with Zygopteridaceae inside Filicopsida.
This single impression of a bennettitalean leaf fragment found in a fine ash layer constituted the only foliar remains identified within the volcaniclastic deposit of Korsaröd Ginkgoites[100] Xerophilous Very rare, with less than 1% on all samples A Pollen Grain, affinities with Ginkgoales inside Ginkgophyta.
Ginkgoales trend to spike towards the Toarcian in the Northern European region, as seen in the coeval Sorthat Formation of Bornholm Araucariacites[100][140] Xerophilous Rare, with around a 1.5% on all samples A Pollen Grain, affinites with the family Araucariaceae inside Pinales.
Lowland (coastal) indicator Granulonapites[135] Xerophilous Rare to moderately common in upper samples A Pollen Grain, affinites with the family Araucariaceae inside Pinales.
On the petiole of Osmundastrum puchellum excavations up to 715 μm in diameter are evident, filled with pellets that resemble the coprolites of Oribatid mites found also on Paleozoic and Mesozoic Woods.