«Globigerinenmergel»

Representation and status

Color CMYK
N/A
Color RGB
R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
Rank
lithostratigraphic Formation
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
incorrect term (disused)
Status discussion

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Globigerinenmergel»
Français
«Marnes à Globigérines»
Italiano
«Marna a Globigerina»
English
«Globigerina Marls»
Origin of the Name

Namengebendes Fossil: Foraminiferen-Familie Globigerinoidea (basierend auf die Gattung Globigerina d'Orbigny 1826).

Historical Variants

schistes à Globigérines (Boussac 1909b), Schistes argileux à globigérines (Lugeon 1910), Schistes nummulitiques (Boussac 1912, Badoux 1945, Badoux 1946), Schistes à Globigérines (Schroeder & Ducloz 1955, Pairis & Pairis 1975), Globigerinenmergel = Globigerina Marls (Kuhn 1972), Marnes à Globigérines, Marnes à Foraminifères, Globigerinenschiefer (Steffen 1981), Globigerinenmergel (Bayer 1982, Linder 2002), Globigerinenmergel = Globigerina Marl (Piller et al. 2022)

Description

Thickness
70-100 m (Wildhorn-Decke), 30 m (Doldenhorn-Decke)

Components

Fossil Content
  • algae
  • foraminifera

Globigerinen, Dasycladacea

Hierarchy and sequence

Upper boundary

Flysch

Lower boundary

"Nummulitique"

Age

Age at top
  • middle Eocene
Age at base
  • middle Eocene
Note about base

late Middle Eocene

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Paleogene of the Helvetics
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
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