«Mergel- und Kalkzone» (MKZ)

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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 name (though informally used)
Status discussion

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Mergel- und Kalkzone» (MKZ)
Français
«Mergel- und Kalkzone» (MKZ)
Italiano
«Mergel- und Kalkzone» (MKZ)
English
«Mergel- und Kalkzone» (MKZ)
Historical Variants

Zone des marnes et calcaires gris oolithiques (Baumberger & Moulin 1898), Zone der grauen oolithischen Kalke und Mergel du Marbre bâtard (Baumberger 1901, Frei 1925), Mergel- und Kalkzone (Häfeli 1964b, Häfeli 1966, Aufranc et al. 2017), Unité inférieure oolithique = Mergel-und-Kalk-Zone (Détraz 1989)

Description

Description

Mergel, Kalke, lokales Basiskonglomerat, gefolgt von zunehmend arenitisch-oolithischen Lagen

Components

Fossil Content
  • charophytes

Hierarchy and sequence

Age

Age at top
  • Middle Berriasian
Age at base
  • Middle Berriasian

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Cretaceous of the Jura Mountains
Paleogeography
Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform :
Plateforme de Bourgogne, ... = Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform (NTCP)
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Conditions of formation

ruhiges Wasser

Metamorphism
non metamorphic
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