Membre de Porrentruy
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- Color CMYK
- cf. Formation de Courgenay
- Color RGB
- R: 155 G: 195 B: 215
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- unknown status
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Porrentruy-Member
- Français
- Membre de Porrentruy
- Italiano
- Membro di Porrentruy
- English
- Porrentruy Member
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
- Elsgovien des environs de Porrentruy (Combe-Vaberbin) (Rollier 1912 p.105), Porrentruy-Schichten (Gygi 1995 S.12), Couches de Porrentruy (vgl. Gygi 2000: 60), Porrentruy Member (Gygi 2000c), Pruntrut-Member
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- nicht "Groupe de Porrentruy" (vgl. Waibel in: Waibel & Burri 1961, Gygi 2000)
Description
- Description
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"smoothly fracturing, massive, white, calcarenitic and micritic, chalky limestones with Nerinean gastropods, small oncoids and coated intraclasts" [Jank 2004 p.17]
- Geomorphology
- S’altère de manière préférentielle sous la base saillante de la Formation de Reuchenette et forme une vire distincte ou une dépression limoneuse.
- Thickness
- 10-20 m, l'épaisseur maximale se trouvant vers l'est à la transition avec le Membre de Ste-Vérène (Aufranc et al. 2016).
Components
Fossil Content
- corals
- nerineans
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Kimmeridgian
- Note about top
- Planula-Zone
- Age at base
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- Early Kimmeridgian
- Note about base
- Planula-Z.
- Dating Method
- Ammonitenbiostratigraphie
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Ajoie
- Type area
- région de Porrentruy
- Type locality
- Reference profiles
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Courgenay (JU)
Site particularities- typische Fazies
- Strassenanschnitt / Bahnanschnitt
- (2573790 / 1247100)
- Chemin Paulin, 4 km SW Courgenay (Gygi 2000b Pl.19 Profil RG350, Gygi 2000c)
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Courgenay (JU)
Palaenography and tectonic
- 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
References
- Definition
-
2000) :
Annotated index of lithostratigraphic units currently used in the Upper Jurassic of northern Switzerland. Eclogae geol. Helv. 93/1, 125-146
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p.129: Above follows the Porrentruy Member, an almost pure white, massive micritic limestone which is 13 m thick in the reference section that is RG 350.