Role
Visiting Reader in Geological Sciences
Qualifications & background
Kevin N. PAGE, M.A. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (Lond.) Ph.D. THESIS
PAGE, K.N. 1988. The Stratigraphy and Ammonites of the British Lower Callovian. University College, University of London, 462pp.
Professional membership
Roles on external bodies
• Voting Member of the International Subcommission on Jurassic Stratigraphy (IUGS) and Convener of the Geoconservation Working;
• Council Member of the British Institute for Geological Conservation (UK contact for ProGEO (The European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage).
• Chairman, Devon Regionally Important Geological Sites Group;
• Reviewer for the following Journals: Geobios, Palaeontology, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society; Letheia.
• Specialist consultant on geological heritage and landscape for Countryside Council for Wales, Dartmoor National Park Authority, Devon County Council, Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust, European Geoparks Network
• Member of IGCP Project: Triassic-Jurassic boundary events.
Member Devon Biodiversity Partnership
Member South West Regional Landscape Partnership
Member South West Geodiversity Partnership.
Publications
RECENT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
CLEMENCE, ME; BARTOLINI, A. GARDIN, S., PARIS, G., BEAUMONT, V., PAGE, KN. 2010 Early Hettangian benthic-planktonic coupling at Doniford (SW England) Palaeoenvironmental implications for the aftermath of the end-Triassic crisis. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 295 102-115.
NUNN, E.V., PRICE G.D., HART M. B., PAGE, K.N. & LENG M.J. 2009. Terrestrial and marine carbon isotope signals from the Callovian–Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) succession at Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 166, 633-641.
PRICE, G.D., WILKINSON, D., HART. M.B., PAGE K.N. & GRIMES S.T. 2009. Isotopic analysis of co-existing late Jurassic fish otoliths and molluscs: implications for upper ocean water temperature estimates. Geology, 37, 215-218.
BOOMER I.; LORD A.R.; PAGE K.N.; ET AL. 2009 The biostratigraphy of the Upper Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) sequence at Ilminster, Somerset. Journal of Micropalaeontology 28, 67-85.
PAGE, K.N. 2008. The evolution and geography of Jurassic ammonites. Proceedings of the Geologist’s Association 119: 35-57 [‘Highly cited author’ award presented by Elsevier].
PRICE, G.D. AND PAGE, K.N. 2008. A carbon and oxygen isotopic analysis of molluscan faunas from the Callovian-Oxfordian boundary at Redcliff Point, Weymouth, Dorset: implications for belemnite behavior. Proceedings of the Geologist’s Association 119: 153-160.
WILBY, P.R., DUFF, K., PAGE, K. and MARTIN, S. 2008. Preserving the unpreservable: a lost world rediscovered at Christian Malford, UK. Geology Today 24: 95-98.
MEISTER, C., ABERHAN, M., BLAU, J., DOMMERGUES, J.-L., FEIST-BURKHARDT, S., HAILWOOD, E., HART, M., HESSELBO, S.P., HOUNSLOW, M.W., HYLTON, M., MORTON, N., PAGE, K. and PRICE, G.D. 2006. The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Pliensbachian Stage (Lower Jurassic), Wine haven, Yorkshire, UK. Episodes 29: 93-114.
WRIGHT, J.K. and PAGE. K.N. 2006. The cardioceratid ammonite fauna of the Upware Limestone and Dimmock’s Cote Marl (Upper Jurassic) in Cambridgeshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 56: 65-75.
PAGE, K.N. 2005a. The Hettangian ammonite faunas of the West Somerset coast (south west England) and their significance for the correlation of the candidate GSSP (Global Stratotype and Point) for the base of the Jurassic System at St. Audries Bay. In: Hanzo, M. (coord.), Colloque Hettangien à Hettange, de la science au patrimoine, Hettange, 1-3 avril 2005: 15-19. Unversité Henri Poncaré, Nancy.
PAGE, K.N. 2005b. A review of the stratigraphy and ammonite faunas of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation (Lower Jurassic, Mid Sinemurian to basal Upper Pliensbachian) of the West Dorset coast, south-west England Torbay (abstract). Geoscience in South-West England 11: 163.
PAGE, K.N. 2004a. A sequence of biohorizons for the Subboreal Province Lower Toarcian in northern Britain and their correlation with a Submediterranean Standard. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110: 109-114.
PAGE, K.N. 2004b. The Callovian-Oxfordian boundary in Britain: A review of key sections and their correlation with the proposed Global Stratotype Section and Point for the Oxfordian in Haute Provence, France. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110: 201-208.
PAGE, K.N., BELLO, J., LARDIÉS, M.D., MELÉNDEZ, G., RAMAJO, J. and ZIANI, H. 2004. The stratigraphy of the Upper Bathonian to Middle Oxfordian succession of the Aragonese branch of the Cordillera Ibérica (Spain) and its European context. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110: 191-200.
MATYJA, B.A., PAGE, K. N., WIERZBOWSKI, A. and WRIGHT, J.K. 2004. The Flodigarry section (Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye); a possible GSSP candidate for the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary and its Subboreal/Boreal ammonite sucession. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110: 273-278.
PAGE, K.N. 2003. The Lower Jurassic of Europe - its subdivision and correlation. In: INESON, J and SURLYK, F., (eds). The Jurassic of Denmark and adjacent areas. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Bulletin 1: 23-59.
MEISTER, C., BLAY, J., DOMMERGUES, J.-L., FEIST-BURKHARDT, S., HART, M., HESSELBO, S.P., HYLTON, M., PAGE, K. and PRICE, G. 2003. A proposal for the Global Boundary Stratotype section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Pliensbachian Stage (Lower Jurassic). Eclogae geologica Helvetica 96: 275-297.
PAGE, K., HART, M.B., CHAPMAN, N.,OXFORD, M.J. and SIMMONS, M.D. 2003. The search for a Global Stratotype Section & Point (GSSP) for the base of the Oxfordian Stage. Geoscience in south-west England 10: 435-441.
BLOOS, G. and PAGE, K.N. 2002. Global Stratotype Section and Point for base of the Sinemurian Stage (Lower Jurassic). Episodes 25 (1): 22-28.
COX, B.M., PAGE, K.N. and MORTON, N. 2002. Chapter 6 - The Middle Jurassic stratigraphy of Scotland. In: COX, B.M. and SUMBLER, M.. British Middle Jurassic Stratigraphy. Geological Conservation Review Series, No.26, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough: 363-426.
PAGE, K.N. 2002. A Review of the ammonite faunas and Standard Zonation of the Hettangian and Lower Sinemurian succession (Lower Jurassic) of the East Devon Coast (South West England). Geoscience in south-west England 10: 293-303.
PAGE, K.N. 2001. Up a Bathonian backwater – A review of the ammonite evidence of the correlating sequences with interdigitating non-marine facies in central and northern England. Hantkeniana 3: 131-148.
WRIGHT, J.K., KELLY, S.R.A. and PAGE, K.N. 2000. The stratigraphy of the “Corallian” facies Middle Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) deposits at Upware, Cambridgeshire, England. Proceedings of the Geologist’s Association 111: 97-110.
BLOOS, G. and PAGE, K.N. 2000. The basal Jurassic ammonite succession in the North-West European Province - Review and new results. In: HALL, R.L. and SMITH, P. (eds.), Advances in Jurassic Research 2000. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Jurassic System, GeoResearch Forum 6, Trans Tech Publications: 27-40.
PAGE, K.N., BLOOS, G., BESSA, J.L., FITZPATRICK, M., HART, M.B., HESELBO, S., HYLYON, M., MORRIS, A. and RANDALL, D.E. 2000. East Quantoxhead, Somerset: A candidate Global Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Sinemurian Stage (Lower Jurassic). In: HALL, R.L. and SMITH, P.L. (eds.), Advances in Jurassic Research 2000. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Jurassic System, GeoResearch Forum 6, Trans Tech Publications: 163-172.
PAGE, K.N. and MÉLENDEZ, G. 2000. Correlation of Late Bathonian ammonite faunas between England and North East Spain and a proposed standard zonation for the Upper Bathonian of northern and eastern Europe. In: HALL, R.L. and SMITH, P.L. (eds.), Advances in Jurassic Research 2000. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Jurassic System, GeoResearch Forum 6, Trans Tech Publications: 153-162.
CORNA, M., DOMMERGUES, J.-L., MEISTER, C. and PAGE, K.N. 1997. Les ammonites du Jurassique inférieur (Hettangien, Sinémurian et Pliensbachian) au nord du massif des Écrins (Oisans, Alpes occidentales françaises). Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 16:
PAGE, K.N. 1996a. Mesozoic ammonoids in time and space. In: LANDMAN, N.H., TANABE, K. and DAVIS, R. (eds), Ammonoid Palaeobiology, Plenum Press: 855-794.
PAGE, K.N. 1996b. Observations on the succession of ammonite faunas in the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of south west England, and their correlation with a Sub-Mediterranean Standard Zonation. Proceedings of the Ussher Society 9: 45-53.
PAGE, K.N. 1995. Horizons; Intra-subzonal units in Jurassic ammonite stratigraphy. Palaeontology 38: 801-814.
DOMMERGUES, J.L., PAGE, K.N. and MEISTER, C. 1994. A detailed correlation of Upper Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) ammonite biohorizons between Burgundy (France) and Britain. Newsletters in Stratigraphy 30: 61-73.
PAGE, K.N. 1994. Preliminary observations on the ammonoid faunas of the basal Jurassic in Somerset and their global context. Proceedings of the Ussher Society 8: 278-281.
PAGE, K.N. 1993. Mollusca: Cephalopod (Ammonoidea: Phylloceratina, Lytoceratina, Ammonitina and Ancyloceratina). In: BENTON, M.J. (ed), Fossil Record 2, Chapman and Hall: 213-227.
PAGE, K.N. 1992. The sequence of ammonite correlated horizons in the British Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic). Newsletters in Stratigraphy 27, 129-156.
PAGE, K.N. 1991a. Ammonite Zones and Sub Zones. In: MARTILL, D.M. and HUDSON, J.D. (eds), Fossils of the Oxford Clay, Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 4: 15-19.
PAGE, K.N. 1991b. Ammonites. In: MARTILL, D.M. and HUDSON, J.D. (eds), Fossils of the Oxford Clay, Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 4: 86-143.
PAGE, K,N. 1989. A stratigraphical revision for the English Lower Callovian. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 100: 363-382.
CALLOMON, J.H., DIETL, G. and PAGE, K.N. 1988. On the ammonite faunal horizons and standard zonations of the Lower Callovian Stage in Europe. In: ROCHA, R.B. and SOARES, A.F. (eds), 2nd International Symposium on Jurassic Stratigraphy, Centro de Estratigrafia e Paleobiologia de Universidade Nova de Lisboa: 359-376.
PAGE, K.N. 1986. A new section in the Elsworth Rock (Jurassic, Oxfordian) at Papworth Everard, near Cambridge, England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 97: 229-235.
Reports & invited lectures
Design of scientifically accurate illustrations for interpretative boards for the English Riviera Geopark (Torbay) including liaison with artist (Devonian marine scene, Permian desert and Ice Age valley, 2007). Completed illustrations can be viewed at:
www.englishrivierageopark.org.uk/ghistory.html
Geological presenter for the Dartmoor Film Project (Dartmoor National Park project to produce a feature film/documentary telling the story of Dartmoor (for use in interpretation centres, retail and distribution to schools throughout the County) (2008-2009).
Compilation of site descriptions and general editing of content of the Educational Register of Geological Sites in Devon (accessible via: www.devon.gov.uk/index/natural_environment/geology.html ) (2008).
Geological Landscapes Aspect Specialist for Countryside Council for Wales’s LANDMAP project including development of methodology and survey and reporting on Radnorshire, Vale of Glamorgan, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire, Anglesey, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Newport, Carmarthenshire, Wrexham and Ceredigion (national project supported by the Welsh Assembly to provide landscape-scale assessments for spatial planning, educational use, etc). All completed surveys and methodology description available via: http://landmap-ccw.gov.uk . (2003-2009).
Production of Parish Local Geodiversity Audits as part of a Devon County Council/ Aggregates Industries project to promote and target local community conservation activities (funded by the Aggregates Levyy Sustainability Fund; 2005-2006). Reports prepared for 10 Devon parishes: Yealmpton, Ipplepen, Burlescombe, Bishop’s Tawton, Holcombe Rogus, Bampton, Okehampton Hamlets, Uffculme, Woodbury and Landkey. Reports under preparation for web release.
Author of Torbay Local Geodiversity Audit (Page 2004); available at: www.countryside-trust.org.uk/ bappdfs/pagegeorev.pdf ).
Design and production of interpretative materials including guide book (collaboration with Peter Keene of Thematic Trails), sign boards and web-based educational resource materials for Dartmoor National Park Authority / Devon County Council Project). Resource materials available at:
www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/index/learninabout/case_studies/educatiom-meldon_case_study.html ).
Previous materials produced as part of a display celebrating Dartmoors’s geology (‘370 million years in the making’) are also available at: www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/rigspanel14-17.pdf).
Updating and development of the geological content of the Devon Biodiversity Action Plan fro Devon County Council (strategic policy framework setting priorities for and guiding all natural heritage conservation in Devon, including aspects of education and interpretation – includes review of geological context of Devon) (2007). Available at: www.devon.gov.uk/index/environment/natural_environment/biodiversity/ devon_biodiversity_action_plan.html
Contributions to the Virtually Dartmoor project – audio tours with moving images for key sites within the Dartmoor National Park. See: www.virtuallydartmoor.org.uk .
