Calcaire du Val de Fier

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
informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Val-de-Fier-Kalk
Français
Calcaire du Val de Fier
Italiano
Calcare della Val de Fier
English
Val de Fier Limestone
Origin of the Name

Val de Fier (France)

Historical Variants

Calcaire du Val de Fier (Mouty 1966), Calcaires du Val-de-Fier

Age

Age at top
  • Early Valanginian
Age at base
  • Late Berriasian

Geography

Type locality

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Lower Cretaceous
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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. ... c) «Calcaire du Val de Fier» (Marbre bâtard des géologues vaudois): calcaire pseudoolithique, blanc-crème, à Pfenderina neocomensis." p.16

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