Membre du Mont Terri
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- Color CMYK
- (13%,26%,0%,24%)
- Color RGB
- R: 170 G: 145 B: 195
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Mont-Terri-Member
- Français
- Membre du Mont Terri
- Italiano
- Membro del Mont Terri
- English
- Mont-Terri Member
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
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Mont-Terri Member (Reisdorf et al. 2011)
Links
- Possible confusion
Description
- Description
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Mittel- bis dunkelgraue Mergel, in die sich einzelne knollige bis kompakte Kalkbänke einschalten. Das Mont-Terri-Member ist nur selten ganz aufgeschlossen. Buxtorf (1910) und Laubscher (1963) zufolge beginnt das Member mit terrigen Tonsteinen, welche sukzessive in eine Kalk-Mergel-Wechsellagerung übergehen.
- Thickness
- Max. 25 m (Buxtorf 1910; Laubscher 1963).
Components
Fossil Content
- ammonites
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
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- early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
- Note about top
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davoei-Zone, Oistoceras- + davoei-Subzone
- Age at base
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- late Sinemurian
- Note about base
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?obtusum-Zone, ?stellare-Subzone
- Dating Method
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Biostratigraphie: ammonites
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Région du Mont Terri, Soubey (JU).
- Type area
- Mont Terri (JU).
- Type profile
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Les Salins (SE Courtemautruy/ JU) au Mont Terri
Coordinates- (2578800 / 1248080)
- Coupe décrite par Reisdorf et al. 2011
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Les Salins (SE Courtemautruy/ JU) au Mont Terri
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Liassic of the Jura Moutains
- Paleogeography
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Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform
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Plateforme de Bourgogne, ... = Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform (NTCP) - Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Jura
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Juragebirge
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Jura
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- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic