Erlimoos-Bank

Representation and status

Color CMYK
(13%,25%,0%,22%)
Color RGB
R: 195 G: 170 B: 220
Rank
lithostratigraphic Bed
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
valid formal name

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Erlimoos-Bank
Français
Banc d'Erlimoss
Italiano
Strato d'Erlimoos
English
Erlimoos Bed
Origin of the Name

Ehemalige Tongrube Erlimoos am Hauenstein (SO)

Historical Variants

Erlimoos Bed (Reisdorf et al. 2011)

Description

Description

Im Erscheinungsbild können sich Erlimoos-Bank und bestimmte kalkphosphoritische Bänke des Pliensbachiens (siehe Breitenmatt-Member, Müsenegg-Bank) einander stark ähneln. Häufig - im Gegensatz zum Breitenmatt-Member und Müsenegg-Bank - ist die Erlimoos-Bank allerdings von Schwämmen in kalkphosphoritischer Erhaltung und pyritisierten Stromatolithen bewachsen: Grössere Flächen können hierbei lückenlos überkrustet sein.

Thickness
0 – 0,4 m (Reisdorf et al. 2011).

Components

Mineral Content
  • glauconite
Fossil Content
  • ammonites

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit
Units at roof
Units at floor
Upper boundary

Die Erlimoos-Bank bildet die Basis des Gross-Wolf-Member.

Lower boundary

Rietheim-Member (inkl. Unterer Stein) oder Breitenmatt-Member (inkl. Müsenegg-Bank).

Age

Age at top
  • late Toarcian
Note about top

variabilis-Zone

Age at base
  • late Toarcian
Note about base

variabilis-Z.

Dating Method

Biostratigraphie: Ammoniten, Ostracoden, Foraminiferen

Geography

Geographical extent
Hauensteingebiet bis Berner Jura.
Type area
Hauensteingebiet
Type profile
  • Erlimoos (SO)
    Coordinates
    • (2633400 / 1247050)
    Note
    • Beschreibung des Typusprofils in Goldschmidt (1965), Burkhard (1978), Imhof (1980) und Jordan (1983).

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Liassic of the Jura Moutains
Paleogeography
Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform :
Plateforme de Bourgogne, ... = Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform (NTCP)
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Sequence

Kondensationshorizont: das biostratigraphisch ungeordnete Auftreten von Leitfossilien (Ammoniten, Ostracoden) belegt intensive Aufarbeitungsvorgänge und Bioturbation im Bildungszeitraum (Jordan 1983, Wetzel & Reisdorf in press).

Metamorphism
non metamorphic

References

Definition
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

Strongly condensed, phosphoritic, glauconitic marls rich in fossils or marly limestone of small thickness (Figs. 12 , 13 , 17 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ; see Erni in Mühlberg 1915 ; Jordan 1983 ; Kuhn and Etter 1994 ). In addition, clasts and even boulders occur, as well as macrofossils that display evidence of reworking, such as phosphatised ammonites (Fig. 19 ; see Erni in Mühlberg 1915 ; Imhof in Jordan 1983 ; cf. Groschopf et al. 1977 : 115p.). In the Hauenstein area, the Erlimoos Bed also contains disarticulated and often fragmented reptilian skeletal elements (= exhumed and reworked vertebrate fragments of the Rietheim Member?; Figs. 13 , 17 ; see Meyer and Furrer 1995 ; Reisdorf et al. subm. ). The biostratigraphically orderless appearance of index fossils (ammonites, ostracods, foraminifers) indicates substantial reworking and bioturbation during the formation of the Erlimoos Bed (see Hess 1962 ; Jordan 1983 ; Richter 1987 ; Wetzel and Reisdorf 2007 ). In some areas, the erosive base cuts down to the Ibex zone, possibly even down to the Jamesoni zone of the Breitenmatt Member (Figs. 3 , 17 ; see Erni in Mühlberg 1915 ; Jordan 1983 ; Wetzel et al. 1993 ). The Erlimoos Bed and certain phosphoritic layers of the Pliensbachian (see Breitenmatt Member and Müsenegg Bed) may have a quite similar appearance. In contrast to the Breitenmatt Member (including the Müsenegg Bed), the Erlimoos Bed is, however, often overgrown by sponges in phosphoritic preservation and pyritised stromatolites: Even larger surfaces may be encrusted here without significant gaps (Figs. 13 , 17 , 18 , 20 ; see Jordan 1983 ; cf. Ohmert 1976 ; Etzold 1980 ). This stratigraphic level is detectable even in drill cores because of its peculiar facies. An additional feature of the Erlimoos Bed is the absence of gryphaeid oysters, unlike the Breitenmatt Member.

Material and varia

2) Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen z.B. durch Hess (1962) und Beher in Maisch & Reisdorf (2006). 3) “Posidonien-Schiefer” sensu Celliers (1907): Celliers (1907) charakterisiert diese lithostratigraphische Einheit folgendermassen: Graue Farbe, rostbraune Verwitterungsfarbe, sandiger, z.T. spätiger Kalkstein mit “Posidonia Bronni Voltz” und “Pecten sp.”. Der Gesteinsbeschreibung nach zu urteilen handelt es sich nicht um die “Posidonien-Schiefer” (= «Rietheim-Member»), sondern um das «Gross Wolf-Member» (möglicherweise um das «Erlimoos-Bed»). 4) “Margaritatus-Schichten” sensu Lehner (1920): Bezüglich der biostratigraphischen Einordnung siehe mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen von Hess (1962).
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