«Arietenkalk»

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

incorrect term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

«Arietenkalk»

Français

«Calcaire à Arietites»

Italiano

«Calcare a Arietites»

English

«Arietites Limestone»

Origin of the Name

Namengebendes Fossil: Ammonitengattung Arietites, insb. Arietites bucklandi Sowerby und Arietites bisulcatus.

Historical Variants

Arietenkalk(e) (Moesch 1857, 1867, Schill 1867, Schalch 1880 und 1895, Tobler 1905 Tab.8, Amsler 1919, Heim 1919, Disler 1941, Buser 1952, Urlichs 1977, Jordan 1983, Müller et al. 1984), Arietenkalk (de Quervain 1969)

Components

• ammonites

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Staffelegg-Formation

Age

Age at top

• late Sinemurian

Note about top

obtusum-Zone

Age at base

• early Sinemurian

Note about base

bucklandi-Zone

Geography

Type area

Süd-Deutschland (Schwaben)

Palaenography and tectonic

• Liassic of the Jura Moutains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Important Publications

Reisdorf A., Wetzel A., Schlatter, Jordan (2011) : The Staffelegg Formation: a new stratigraphic scheme for the Early Jurassic of northern Switzerland Swiss J. Geosci. 104/1, 97-146

Jordan P. (1983) : Zur Stratigraphie des Lias zwischen Unterem Hauenstein und Schinznach (Solothurner und Aargauer Faltenjura) Eclogae geol. Helv. 76/2, 355-379