Wolfersdorf-Sandstein
Back to Laufen basinRepresentation and status
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Wolfersdorf-Sandstein
- Français
- Grès de Wolfersdorf
- Italiano
- Arenaria di Wolfersdorf
- English
- Wolfersdorf Sandstone
- Origin of the Name
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Wolfersdorf (France)
- Historical Variants
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Faune marine de Wolfersdorf (Rollier 1910), Sables et marnes de Dannemarie et Wolfersdorf (Meyer 1928), Sables marins de Wolfersdorf (Gillet & Theobald 1936, Duringer 1988, Sittler 1992)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic
References
- Definition
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2018) :
A revised Palaeogene lithostratigraphic framework for the Northern Swiss Jura and the Southern Upper Rhine Graben and its relationship to the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Riv. Italiana Pal. Strat. 124/1, 163–246
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p.217: A historically well-known part is the thin fossil-rich sandstone (formerly called “Sables marins de Wolfersdorf ”) in the lower part of the member. The absence of this fossiliferous sandstone in the drilling Hirtzbach (10 km distant) has been mentioned in Vonderschmitt (1942), further highlighting the regional restriction of the members of the Wahlebach Fm.