Banc du Pont des Pierres

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Representation and status

Color RGB
R: 110 G: 180 B: 160
Rank
lithostratigraphic Bed
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Pont-des-Pierres-Bank
Français
Banc du Pont des Pierres
English
Pont des Pierres Bed
Origin of the Name

Pont des Pierres (Valserine, France)

Historical Variants

Bancs à Panopées (Revil 1911), Uttins Marls [sic] (Strasser et al. 2018), Pont des Pierres Bed (Pictet 2021)

Description

Thickness
Max. 30 m dans le Jura méridional (Pictet 2021).

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

Age

Age at top
  • Late Hauterivian
Age at base
  • Late Hauterivian

Geography

Geographical extent
Jura méridional.

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Cretaceous of the Jura Mountains
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic
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