Schimberg-Member
Representation and status
- Index
- e5S
- Color CMYK
- (0%,24%,63%,4%)
- Color RGB
- R: 245 G: 185 B: 90
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Schimberg-Member
- Français
- Membre du Schimberg
- Italiano
- Membro dello Schimberg
- English
- Schimberg Member
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
-
Schimberg-Schichten = Nummulitique des Alpes de Suisse centrale (Renevier 1897), Mergelschiefer mit der kleinen Nummulina variolaria Sow. (Baltzer 1906), Schimbrig-Schiefer (Boussac 1912, Colombi 1960, Steffen 1981), Schimberg-Schiefer (Mollet 1921, Herb in: Bayer et al. 1983), Schimbrig-Mergel, Schimberg-Mergel, Konglomeratlagen und Blöcke am Schimbrig (Bayer 1982)
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
-
siehe auch Brückner 1942, Eckert 1963
Components
Lithologic Content
Führt lokal Konglomerat und Sandlagen.
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
- Upper boundary
-
Niederhorn-Formation, Hohgant-Sandstein
- Lower boundary
-
Tierberg-Member
Age
- Age at top
-
- Priabonian
- Age at base
-
- Priabonian
- Dating Method
-
Biostratigraphie: Foraminiferen (Eckert 1963).
Palaenography and tectonic
-
- Tertiary
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
-
- Drusberg
-
Zentrales Helvetikum
:
u.a. Berner Oberland
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
- 1921) : Geologie der Schafmatt-Schimberg-Kette und ihrer Umgebung (Kt. Luzern). Beitr. geol. Karte Schweiz( N.F.) 47/3 (