Membre de la May

Torna a Membre de Porrentruy

Rappresentazione e statuto

Colore CMYK
cf. Formation de Courgenay
Colore RGB
R: 155 G: 195 B: 215
Rango
Membro litostratigrafico (Sotto-formazione)
Uso
Unità in uso.
Status
termine formale valido

Nomenclatura

Deutsch
La-May-Member
Français
Membre de la May
Italiano
Membro della May
English
La May Member
Origine del nome

Petite vallée de La May, 2.5 km NE de St-Ursanne (JU)

Varianti storiche

Humeralis-Kalke auct., La May-Schichten (Gygi 1995 S.12), La May Member (Gygi 2000c)

Descrizione

Descrizione

Calcaire micritique, bien lité, pas d’ammonites mais des bivalves (Pholadomya). yellow, "spary-oolithic" limestone

Potenza
20-30 m (Aufranc et al. 2016), 31 m à Courgenay (Gygi 2000c)

Componenti

Fossili
  • brachiopodi

Gerarchia e successione

Unità di rango superiore
Limite superiore

Calcaire massifs du Mb. de Porrentruy. Limite supérieure difficile à repérer (év. lumachelle d'huîtres perforées, ecroûtées et teinteées de rouge).

Limite inferiore

Marnes du Mb. de Bure (masqué)

Età

Geomorfologia
  • Primo Kimmeridgiano
Età alla base
  • Oxfordiano tardo
Metodo di datazione

Coulée de débris

Geografia

Estensione geografica
Nord de la suisse
Regione-tipo
Canton du Jura
Località-tipo
  • La May (JU)
    Caratteristiche del sito
    • typische Fazies
    Coordinate
    • (2580750 / 1247500)
    Nota
    • Petite vallée 2.5 km NE de St-Ursanne (Gygi 2000b/c Profil RG337)
Sezione di riferimento
  • Forage de La Coperie (JU)
    Caratteristiche del sito
    • Obergrenze
    • Untergrenze
    • typische Fazies
    Agibilità del sito
    • Bohrkern
    Coordinate
    • (2580900 / 1246230)
    Nota
    • <p>Forage d'exploration de la Transjurane (Gygi 2000b Pl.20 Profil RG443)</p>

Paleogeografia e tettonica

Termini generici
Tipo di origine
  • sedimentaria
Metamorfismo
non metamorfo

Referenze

Revisione
Gygi R. A. (2000) : Annotated index of lithostratigraphic units currently used in the Upper Jurassic of northern Switzerland. Eclogae geol. Helv. 93/1, 125-146

p.129: The La May Member below is a well-bedded micritic limestone with a thickness of 31 m in the section RG 350 at Chemin Paulin.

p.134: La May Member (Gygi 1995) ; Previously "Humeralis-Kalke". Member of the Courgenay Formation ; Synonymy: Gygi (2000b, p. 61)

The La May Member was named by Gygi (1995. p. 12). The name refers to the small valley called La May 2.5 km northeast of St-Ursanne in Canton Jura. LK 1085 St-Ursanne. where part of the member crops out at coordinates ca. 580.750/247.500 in the unpublished section RG 337. Below is the marl of the Bure Member which is covered, and above is a good outcrop of the massive Porrentruy Member. The only complete section of the La May Member was provided by the exploration well for the Transjurane superhighway near La Coperie farm 2 km east of St-Ursanne. This is section RG 443 which is represented as plate 20 in Gygi (2000b). The limestone of the La May Member is mostly micritic, well-cemented and well-bedded. Rounded lithoclasts of micrite grow to a diameter of 10 mm and are not rare. Macrofossils are Cycloserpula socialis (Goldfuss) and the bivalve Pholadomya. The thickness of the member is about 30 m in the borehole near La Coperie that Gygi (2000b p. 61) proposed to be the type section for lack of a complete outcrop at the surface. No ammonites have been found in the La May Member to date. The clay mineral stratigraphy by Gygi & Persoz (1986. Pl. 1A) indicates that the age of the La May Member ranges from the Hauffianum Subchron ofthe Bimammatum Chron to the lower Planula Chron (Gygi. 1995. Fig. 2). The La May Member occurs only in Canton Jura. The boundaries of the member with the Laufen and Verena Members are transitional.

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