Saubach-Member

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Representation and status

Color RGB
R: 195 G: 140 B: 170
Rank
lithostratigraphic Member (Subformation)
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Saubach-Member
English
Saubach Member
Historical Variants

Adneter Mergel (Tollmann (1976a), Saubach-Schichten (Plöchinger 1975).Saubach-Member (Böhm et al. 1995)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

Age

Age at top
  • Toarcian
Age at base
  • Toarcian

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Liassic of the Austroalpine
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic

References

Definition
Plöchinger B. (1975) : Das Juraprofil an der Zwölferhorn-Westflanke (Nördliche Osterhorngruppe, Salzburg). Verh. Geol. B.-A. 1975, 27-33
Definition
Böhm Florian, Dommergues Jean-Louis, Meister Christian (1995) : Breccias of the Adnet Formation: indicators of a Mid-Liassic tectonic event in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Salzburg/Austria). Geol. Rundschau 84, 272-286

p.273: The rocks of the Saubach Member show a very typical brick red colour. Compared with the Schmiedwirt Member they may be much more marly but have no distinct nodular fabric. Characteristically they are made up of thick layers of marly limestones with intercalated rigid limestone beds. The latter are bioclastic wackestones, filament pack/wackestones and crinoidal pack/wackestones. The major biogenic components are crinoidal debris, filaments (shells of juvenile bivalves), small planktonic gastropods, juvenile ammonites and shell debris of adult ammonites. Lithoclasts are common. The Saubach Member is of Toarcian age. It is well exposed in the Saubachgraben section (Plöchinger 1975), Tauglbach area and Grobriedel section (Böhm 1992). Tollmann (1976a) used the term 'Adneter Mergel' for Toarcian grey marls and the 'Saubach-Schichten' of Plöchinger (1975).

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