«Roter Seewerkalk»
Back to Seewen-FormationRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (12%,0%,49%,20%)
- Color RGB
- R: 180 G: 205 B: 105
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Roter Seewerkalk»
- Français
- «Calcaire rouge de Seewen»
- Italiano
- «Calcare rosso di Seewen»
- English
- «Red Seewen Limestone»
- Historical Variants
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«Roter Seewerkalk», Calcaires rouges (Moret 1934, Villars 1992), Red Seewen Limestone = RSL (Wohlwend et al. 2014)
Links
- Possible confusion
Description
- Description
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Villars 1992:
- Thickness
- bis zu 10 m
Age
- Age at top
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- Late Turonian
- Age at base
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- Middle Turonian
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Bürgenstock (Schlanger et al. 1987), Säntis, Churfristen, Buchberg (Österreich ; Neuhuber et al. 2007).
- Point of interest
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Chäserugg (SG)
Site particularities- Obergrenze
- Untergrenze
- typische Fazies
- Grat
- (2742150 / 1224350)
- Wohlwend et al. 2014
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Chäserugg (SG)
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Cretaceous of the Helvetics
- Paleogeography
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North Tethyan Shelf
:
marge continentale européenne - Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Östliches Helvetikum
:
u.a. Glarner Alpen
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Östliches Helvetikum
:
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Conditions of formation
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Sédimentation pélagique condensée de la zone de transition entre plateforme et bassin, avec faible taux d'accumulation, nodularisation, vannage, tris granulométriques et cimentations précoces (Villars 1992).