Marne de Champforgeron
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Champforgeron-Mergel
- Français
- Marne de Champforgeron
- Italiano
- Marna di Champforgeron
- English
- Champforgeron Marl
- Origin of the Name
-
Quartier de Champforgeron (France) à Besançon
- Historical Variants
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Marnes de Champforgeron (Choffat 1878b, Dreyfuss et al. 1956), Marne de Champ-Forgeron (Rollier 1882), marnes de Champforgeron (Rollet 1958), Marnes à Rhynchonelles de Belfort et Marnes à Rhynchonelles de Champforgeron (BRGM Doubs)
Description
- Thickness
- 1 m (Rollier 1882)
Components
Fossil Content
- rhynchonellids
- terebratulids
- ostreids
- crinoids
Ostrea knorri Voltz, Apiocrinus parkinsoni d'Orb.
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
-
- early Callovian
- Age at base
-
- late Bathonian
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Dogger of the Jura Mountains
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary
References
- Definition
- 1956) : Jurassique s.str. (France, Belgique, Pays-Bas, Luxembourg). Lexique stratigraphique international Vol.1 Fasc.4a V (