Molasse burdigalienne
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- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Burdigale Molasse
- Français
- Molasse burdigalienne
- Italiano
- Molassa burdigalianna
- English
- Burdigalian molasse
- Historical Variants
- Burdigalien auct. (Rutsch 1933), Burdigalien = unterer Teil der OMM (Gerber & Wanner 1984), Molasse burdigalienne, Burdigalian facies (Schoepfer & Berger 1989)
Description
- Thickness
- 250-300 m (Gerber & Wanner 1984)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
Geography
- Type profile
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
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(1989) :
«Burdigalian» and «Helvetian» in Western Switzerland. Geol. Carpathica 40, 17–21
p.17: [The lower part of the OMM] corresponds to the "Burdigalian facies". It is built of a tide- and wave-dominated sandy unit in which sedimentological (Homewood et al. 1981) as well as paleontological (Berger 1985) analyses have been carried out.