Calcaire de Mailley

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Representation and status

Rank
lithostratigraphic unit
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Mailley-Kalk
Français
Calcaire de Mailley
Italiano
Calcare di Mailley
English
Mailley Limestone
Origin of the Name

Mailley (France)

Historical Variants

Calcaires de Mailley (Girardin 1982, BRGM Lure, BRGM-Doubs), Oolithe blanche = Calcaires de Mailley (Médus & Mojon 1996)

Description

Thickness
15-25 m

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof
Units at floor

Age

Age at top
  • early Bathonian
Age at base
  • early Bathonian

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Dogger of the Jura Mountains
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic
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