Banc du Pont des Pierres

Representation and status

Color RGB

R: 110 G: 180 B: 160

Rank

lithostratigraphic Bed

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Pont-des-Pierres-Bank

Français

Banc du Pont des Pierres

Italiano

Strato del Pont des Pierres

English

Pont des Pierres Bed

Origin of the Name

Pont des Pierres (Valserine, France)

Historical Variants

Bancs à Panopées (Revil 1911), Uttins Marls [sic] (Strasser et al. 2018), Pont des Pierres Bed (Pictet 2021)

Description

Thickness

Max. 30 m dans le Jura méridional (Pictet 2021).

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Membre de Montcherand

Units at roof

• Banc du Cul du Nozon

Age

Age at top

• Late Hauterivian

Age at base

• Late Hauterivian

Geography

Geographical extent

Jura méridional.

Palaenography and tectonic

• Cretaceous of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic