Calcaire de Thoiry

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic Formation

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Thoiry-Kalk

Français

Calcaire de Thoiry

Italiano

Calcare di Thoiry

English

Thoiry Limestone

Origin of the Name

Thoiry, Ain (France)

Historical Variants

calcaire blanc massif de Thoiry (de Deonna 1929, Wildi et al. 2021), Calcaire de Thoiry (Mouty 1966)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

• Couches de la Corraterie

Age

Age at top

• Late Berriasian

Age at base

• Middle Berriasian

Geography

Type locality

• Thoiry, Ain (France)
  Coordinates
  • (2487590 / 1121850)

Palaenography and tectonic

• Cretaceous of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic

References

Definition

Mouty M. (1966) : Le Néocomien dans le Jura méridional. Thèse Univ. Genève no. 1369, 256 pages

"Valanginien inférieur s. str. ... (a) «Calcaire de Thoiry»: calcaire micritique et pseudoolithique blanc, à Dasycladacées." p.16