«Estherien-Schiefer»
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- Color CMYK
- (0%,24%,63%,4%)
- Color RGB
- R: 245 G: 185 B: 90
- Rank
- Beds (Submember)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Estherien-Schiefer»
- Français
- «Schistes à Estheria»
- Italiano
- «Scisti a Estheria»
- English
- «Estheria Beds»
- Origin of the Name
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Namengebendes Fossil: Ostracodengattung Estheria, insb. Euestheria minuta (Zieten 1833). Diese Fossilien treten jedoch auch in der Bänkerjoch- und Klettgau-Fm. vor.
- Historical Variants
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Estherienschichten (Disler 1914 S.75), Estherienschiefer (Disler 1941, Merki 1961, Fischer et al. 1971, Müller et al. 1984), Schistes noirs à Esthéria minuta
Description
- Description
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Grauer bis grünlicher, dünnblättriger, bituminöser und pyritreicher Mergel
- Thickness
- 1,5 - 2,0 m (Fischer et al. 1971)
Components
Mineral Content
- pyrite
Fossil Content
- plants : Plantae
- bivalves
- ostracods
Estheria minuta (Goldf.)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Lower boundary
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Kondensationshorizont («Bonebed») im Dach des dolomitischen Stamberg-Members.
Age
- Age at top
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- Ladinian
- Age at base
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- Ladinian
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Triassic of the Jura Mountains
- Paleogeography
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Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform
:
Plateforme de Bourgogne, ... = Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform (NTCP) - Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Jura
:
Juragebirge
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Jura
:
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic