Wittnau-Korallenkalk

Representation and status

Color CMYK
siehe Hauptrogenstein
Color RGB
R: 210 G: 185 B: 135
Rank
lithostratigraphic Bed
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Wittnau-Korallenkalk
Français
Calcaire à coraux de Wittnau
English
Wittnau Coral Limestone
Origin of the Name

Homberg, oberhalb Wittnau (AG), Tafeljura

Historical Variants

---- (Gsell 1968), Korallenkalke von Wittnau (Gsell 1968, Gonzalez 1993), Wittnau Reef (Gonzalez & Wetzel 1996)

Description

Description

Innerhalb der oolithischen Abfolge des Hauptrogensteins sind Kalke eines Korallenriffs erkennbar.

Thickness
5 m (Gonzalez & Wetzel 1996)

Age

Age at top
  • late Bajocian
Age at base
  • late Bajocian
Dating Method

Datierung durch die umrahmenden Einheiten.

Geography

Geographical extent
1 – 2 km breiter Streifen zwischen Olten (SO) und Säckingen (Deutschland).
Type locality
  • Homberg (AG), bei Wittnau
    Coordinates
    • (2639300 / 1260300)
    Note
    • Schmassmann (1945) stellt dieses Profil an den Top der UOS, nach Gonzalez (1993) entsprechen diesen eher die bei der Ruine Homberg (2640200/1260170) sichtbaren Schichten.

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Dogger
Paleogeography
Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform :
Plateforme de Bourgogne, ... = Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform (NTCP)
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic

References

Definition
Gonzalez R., Wetzel A. (1996) : Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Hauptrogenstein and Klingnau Formations (middle Bajocian to late Bathonian), northern Switzerland Eclogae geol. Helv. 89/2, 695-720

p.708: p.708: Within the oolitic succession the Upper "Mumienbank" in the area of Laufen, and the Wittnau Reef, a 5 m thick and 1-2 km broad coral reef between Säckingen (Germany) and Olten can be distinguished.

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