Calcaire à entroques de Vesoul

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(0%,0%,0%,100%)

Rank

lithostratigraphic unit

Validity

Unit is in Use

Status

informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Vesoul-Trochitenkalk

Français

Calcaire à entroques de Vesoul

Italiano

Calcare di Vesoul

English

Vesoul Limestone

Origin of the Name

Vesoul (France)

Historical Variants

Calcaires à Entroques (Caire 1970), Calcaires à Entroques de Vesoul (Aufranc et al. 2016), Calcaires à Entroques de Vesoul = Bajocien inférieur (BRGM Lure, BRGM-Doubs)

Description

Thickness

25 m (Aufrance et al. 2016), 13-30 m (BRGM Lure)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Passwang-Formation

Units at roof

• Vésulien

Age

Age at top

• early Bajocian

Age at base

• early Bajocian

Palaenography and tectonic

• Dogger of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura-FR

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary