Calcaire argileux de Bonnevaux

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Representation and status

Rank
lithostratigraphic Formation
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Bonnevaux-Mergelkalk
Français
Calcaire argileux de Bonnevaux
English
Bonnevaux clayey limestone
Origin of the Name

Bonnevaux (France)

Historical Variants

Calcaires argileux de Bonnevaux (Contini 1989, Lathuillière et al. 2005)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

Age

Age at top
  • Oxfordian
Age at base
  • Oxfordian

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Malm of the Jura Mountains
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic

References

Definition
Contini Daniel (1989) : L'Oxfordien du Jura septentrional: définition des formations, évolution paléogéographique. Ann. Sci. Univ. Franche-Comté (4) 9, 3-16
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