«Obere Sulfatschichten»
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- siehe Zeglingen-Fm.
- Color RGB
- R: 240 G: 145 B: 55
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- incorrect name (though informally used)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Obere Sulfatschichten»
- Français
- «Couches à sulfates supérieures»
- English
- «Upper Sulfate Beds»
- Historical Variants
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"Oberer Salzthon mit Gyps" (Lang 1863), Oberer Gyps (Tobler 1905 Tab.10), Obere Sulfatschichten (Matter 1983, Müller et al. 1984, Diebold et al. 2006), Obere Sulfatzone (Widmer 1991, Hauber et al. 2000, Bitterli et al. 2000), Obere Sulfatzone = upper anhydrite succession (Jordan & Deplazes 2018)
Description
- Thickness
- 17 - 60 m ; 20-45 m (Jordan & Deplazes 2018)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
- Upper boundary
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Dolomitzone (der Anhydritgruppe)
- Lower boundary
-
Salzlager
Age
- Age at top
-
- Anisian
- Age at base
-
- Anisian
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Triassic of the Jura Mountains
- Paleogeography
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Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform
:
Plateforme de Bourgogne, ... = Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform (NTCP) - 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