«Calcaires gris et blancs (supérieurs)»

Representation and status

Color CMYK
(0%,0%,0%,100%)
Rank
Beds (Submember)
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Oberer grauer und weisser Kalk»
Français
«Calcaires gris et blancs (supérieurs)»
English
«Upper Grey and White Limestones»
Historical Variants

Upper Grey and White Limestones (Jank et al. 2006c), Calcaires gris et blancs (Comment et al. 2015)

Description

Thickness
19 m en Ajoie (Comment et al. 2015)

Hierarchy and sequence

Age

Age at top
  • Late Kimmeridgian
Note about top

zone à Eudoxus

Age at base
  • Late Kimmeridgian
Note about base

zone à Eudoxus

Palaenography and tectonic

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

References

Definition
Comment Gaël, Lefort Apolline, Koppka Jens, Hantzpergue Pierre (2015) : Le Kimméridgien d’Ajoie (Jura, Suisse): lithostratigraphie et biostratigraphie de la Formation de Reuchenette. Revue de Paléobiologie 34/2, 161-194
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