«Gault» (du Jura)
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
- obsolete term (disused)
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Gault» (des Juragebirges)
- Français
- «Gault» (du Jura)
- Italiano
- «Gault»
- English
- «Gault» (of the Jura Mountains)
- Origin of the Name
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Par référence à la Gault Formation de la région de Folkestone - Cambridge (UK).
- Historical Variants
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Gault (Michell 1788, Smith 1820), Gault (Barrois 1874, Renevier 1880), Grès verts
Components
Mineral Content
- glauconite
Age
- Age at top
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- Albian
- Age at base
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- Late Aptian
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Gault
- 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