Tüllingen-Süsswasserkalk
Representation and status
- Index
- O3T
- Color CMYK
- (0%,4%,48%,2%)
- Color RGB
- R: 250 G: 240 B: 130
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Tüllingen-Süsswasserkalk
- Français
- Calcaire d'eau douce de Tüllingen
- Italiano
- Calcare d'acqua dolce di Tüllingen
- English
- Tüllingen Freshwater Limestone
- Origin of the Name
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Tüllingen (Deutschland, Baden-Württemberg), südwestlich von Lörrach
- Historical Variants
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calcaires à Helix Ramondi du Tullingerberg (Rollier 1904c), Tüllinger Süsswasserkalk, Tüllingerkalk (Tobler 1905 Tab.2a/d), Calcaires lacustres du Tüllingerberg (Rollier 1910), Tüllingen-Süsswasserschichten (inkl. Tüllingen-Kalke) (Geyer et al. 2003), Tüllinger Kalke = Tüllinger Süsswasserkalke (Hinske 2003), Tüllingersüsswasserkalkschichten Formation (Mennecart 2012), Tüllingen Formation (Pirkenseer et al. 2018)
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- Synonyms
Description
- Thickness
- 160 m im Raum Basel – Lörrach (Geyer et al. 2003); bis 180 bei Lörrach, bis 370 m bei Müllheim (Hinske 2003)
Components
Fossil Content
- gastropods
- charophytes
Planorbis, Lymnaea, Plebecula, Characeen (Tectochara)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
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- late Chattian
- Age at base
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- late Chattian
- Dating Method
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Rollier 1911
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Rheintalflexur (Basel – Lörrach).
- Type area
- Tüllinger Berg
Palaenography and tectonic
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- USM-J
- Paleogeography
- Rhine Graben
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic