Berlingen-Member
Back to Klettgau-FormationRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,24%,35%,4%)
- Color RGB
- R: 245 G: 185 B: 160
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Berlingen-Member
- Français
- Membre de Berlingen
- Italiano
- Membro di Berlingen
- English
- Berlingen Member
- Origin of the Name
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Tiefbohrung bei Berlingen (TG)
- Historical Variants
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Berlingen Member (Jordan et al. 2016)
Description
- Description
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Grobkörnige alluviale und fluviale Sandsteine von Vindelizianischem Ursprung. (Jordan et al. 2015)
- Thickness
- bis zu 5 m (Jordan et al. 2016)
Components
- feldspar
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Upper boundary
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Wiedereinsetzen von buntem Mergel über Sandstein.
- Lower boundary
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Einsetzen von Sandstein über buntem Mergel.
Age
- Age at top
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- Carnian
- Age at base
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- Carnian
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Nordöstliche Schweiz
- Type area
- Seerücken-Gebiet (TG/SH/ZH)
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Triassic of the Jura Mountains
- Paleogeography
- Rhine Graben
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Jura
:
Juragebirge
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Jura
:
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Conditions of formation
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sandige Randfazies mit Vindelizianischem Ursprung.
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
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(2016) :
The middle to late Triassic Bänkerjoch and Klettgau formations of northern Switzerland. Swiss J. Geosc. 109/2, 257-284
In the wells Berlingen and Herdern (both in Canton Thurgau),a coarse-grained sandstone with calcitic matrix is found at the level where the Gansingen Member is expected (sandy layers of «Bunte Mergel (mit Sandlagen)» by Büchi et al. 1965). The sandstone can clearly be distinguished from the fine-grained Ergolz Member sandstone. These layers are significantly older than the Seebi Member, to which they show some similarities. Bläsi (1995) correlated these layers with the «Kieselsandstein» of southern Germany (now Hassberge Formation, e.g. Etzold and Schweizer 2005).
Definition: Middle-grained to coarse-grained, poorly sorted sandstone with quartz, feldspar and rocky fragments of the surrounding members. The matrix contains quartz cement, sulphate or clay in alternation with layers of clayey sandstone and claystone with dolomite nodules.